Off Topic The Politics Thread

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Should the UK remain a part of the EU or leave?

  • Stay in

    Votes: 56 47.9%

  • Get out

    Votes: 61 52.1%
  • Total voters
    117
  • Poll closed .
Quite Possibly Raving said:
It's fundamentally different from trickle down economics. It's about finding the point between 0% (which would raise no tax revenue) and 100% (which would also raise no tax revenue) which would provide the maximum tax yield. Seeking the maximum yield should be seen as a good thing to someone left leaning. One can disagree about if that maximum point is at 80% or 40% or in the middle, but it's nowt to do with trickle down.
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It's about coming up with a justification for letting the rich keep more of their money. Same as trickle down.
 
bobmid said:
And so it has started, one of my employees vans was drilled through for the diesel last night! Great start to the day. Its going to cost me a few quid and there wasnt even a 1/4 of a tank in it!!! Twats
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Sorry to hear it, Bob. Can't call the offenders "scum", since Angela Rayner says that's an everyday friendly greeting up north
 
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bobmid said:
And so it has started, one of my employees vans was drilled through for the diesel last night! Great start to the day. Its going to cost me a few quid and there wasnt even a 1/4 of a tank in it!!! Twats
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Yep. This is going to happen more and more mate.
Complete **** show, still being hyped by the media.
Could be a while before it's sorted.
 
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Quite Possibly Raving said:
I'll not waste my time further than this:

Which of these two rates of income tax do you think would raise more revenue - 100% or 50%?
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I won't dignify that with an answer. The Laffer theory is just that, a theory. It's associated with the discredited Reaganomics, described by another Republican, George H W Bush, as 'voodoo economics'. A spurious justification, along with 'trickle down', for reducing taxation on the rich. Simplistic claptrap.
 
Stroller said:
I won't dignify that with an answer. The Laffer theory is just that, a theory. It's associated with the discredited Reaganomics, described by another Republican, George H W Bush, as 'voodoo economics'. A spurious justification, along with 'trickle down', for reducing taxation on the rich. Simplistic claptrap.
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Very similar to employers who cry crocodile tears when saying they will go out of business if the minimum wage rises and they have to pay their employees a decent wage.

It’s all for our own good, don’t you know
 
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