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Treble said:
There are a lot of public services that'll be needed, and I don't just mean the hospitals, police, schools etc as they are vital ofcourse but also to provide opportunities for youth and unemployed, mental health well-being, social care, community services. It's no longer about political choice, we're going to have to repay the debt and I'd pay a bit more on my taxes to keep those services going.
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God you're quite optimistic aren't you !
 
Treble said:
Over a hundred billion government borrowing at virtually nil interest rate is a false comfort (although some blessing at the moment). At some point rates will go up and then we're going to get hit again two-fold economically.

We'll end up having to either cut public spending or raising taxes to service the national debt. I don't believe the government has any intention of going down the austerity route again so it looks like higher taxes. Given the choice I'd prefer that.
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I’d prefer it personally if they started by treating tax avoidance in the same way as they do benefit cheats. However, seeing as we’ve got actual cabinet members with offshore businesses that pay £0 to HMRC that hardly looks likely.

Quite how we’ve ended up with a nation so groomed and gaslit, where you end up with a working class bloke on £20k a year defending the ‘right’ of a millionaire or billionaire to take their cash offshore and literally voting for it, I’ll never ****ing know.

But hey ho, it is what it is.

Oh and HIAG and his band flounce or something, you thread derailing bell ends <whistle>
 
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Solid_Air 2 said:
well taxes will rise but we just have to hope there are enough taxpayers left to pay it .
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There will be tbf. And tying up the tax-avoidance (note didnt say evasion) system a bit would help. But there will be enough imo especially in the public sector and directly and indirectly generated from the regeneration initiative the government is keen to get going, and even the pensioners you mention are still taxpayers.
 
Tobes said:
I’d prefer it personally if they started by treating tax avoidance in the same way as they do benefit cheats. However, seeing as we’ve got actual cabinet members with offshore businesses that pay £0 to HMRC that hardly looks likely.

Quite how we’ve ended up with a nation so groomed and gaslit, where you end up with a working class bloke on £20k a year defending the ‘right’ of a millionaire or billionaire to take their cash offshore and literally voting for it, I’ll never ****ing know.

But hey ho, it is what it is.

Oh and HIAG and his band flounce or something, you thread derailing bell ends <whistle>
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<applause>.
 
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