Sorry, it was the crying about Bush/Blair and the illegal war rhetoric which confused me. But give me some credit, its not as stupid as fighting for something I don't believe in for 9 years LOL. I'm English you dense cunt. And as for kicking the shit out of me, I doubt it. I'd just tell you your laces were undone and by the time you'd figured out they weren't I'd be long gone
They may well avoid tax, but the top 1% still pay 25% of all the income tax in the entire country (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...of-workers-pay-quarter-of-all-income-tax.html). Maybe if people tried saying 'thank you', instead of 'more more more', they might be more inclined to pay it? I know I would. It would seriously piss me off that so many people had an entitlement complex to my money just because I live on the same island as them. I honestly don't think that they could ever give enough or be taxed enough to satisfy moaners... At the end of the day I understand taxing them based on need, but not on want. People need to eat, and they need to have shelter. They don't need luxuries, they just want them.
I also think there is a psychological barrier at around the 50% tax mark. The best example that we have is when income tax was dropped from 60% to 40%, yet miraculously the tax take tripled.
As for applauding SHM for his comments in this thread: He has made no points with regard to the budget, or for that matter anything else aside from stating his views on conservatives and making vague postulations that yesterday was better than today, as if everyone doesn't do that - even Chinese people who still worship at the feet of Mao statues. Basically, he has just been his usual prickish self, which is hardly worthy of praise. You are just backing him up because you agree with his ideologically driven nonsense, an example of which would be that you think people who are on the sick somehow pay more tax than rich people, when the facts clearly show the top 1% pay 25% of income tax. Will you or anyone else change your view point in light of the actual evidence? Doubtful. But it was worth a try
Bang on the money!
It's the same blindness of a cunt like him that loved shooting poor working class boys on the front line because they suffered shell shock, battle fatigue, PTSD or whatever the boffins want to call it.
By the way my shoelaces are always tied and there are worse timebombs than me travelling on trains watching cunts like you.
Enjoy for now
I may have been pissed when I posted me post but not overcome by a sudden attack of the stoooopids. Obviously I don't literally pay more tax than rich cunts nor any other cunts - don't really pay (income) tax at all at the moment unless it's deducted from benefits. Point I was - admittedly rather badly and somewhat rantily - trying to make was more about willingness to pay tax. Over and above the minimum I could get away with sometimes. Cos it's for the greater good and I know damn well that I'll never be able to pay enough in to cover what I get back for it.
Leaving aside the arguments about there should even be such a thing as rich cunts and poor cunts in the first place, it's the avoidance thing that pisses me off. Rich cunts basically become rich cunts in one of two ways - rich daddy cunt dies or lots of poor cunts put in the donkey work to earn money to produce another rich cunt. In both situations that money tends to stay put - in foreign bank accounts mainly - so it's no good to anyone but the rich cunt. Where's the incentive for the rest of us to keep funding the lifestyle of parasites? Not so much trickle down as handed over from us to them and they don't even have the decency to pay tax on it. And spend fortunes finding ways to pay as little as possible. Then get knighted for being such a great example to the rest of us.
It's not that I think "we" deserve "their" money. More like it's not "their" money to be hoarding in the first place. What's the point of telephone number bank balances when they do fuck all but make more money for people who already have quite enough and do sod all with it but accumulate more? If you're lucky or talented enough to have one of those telephone number bank balances then surely using it to do something useful with it - like maybe paying the amount of tax you're legally obliged to to give others a leg up (or a roof over their heads, food in their bellies, better health care, schools and all that good stuff) - is just basic human decency and common sense. You'd like to think anyway.
PS: Happy birthday, ya rich fascist yank cunt ya