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Discussion in 'General Chat' started by HRH Custard VC, Apr 12, 2022.

  1. FosseFilberto

    FosseFilberto Pizzeria Superiore and some ...
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    'Offspring' ... unless you are stepping off your pogo stick... <whistle>
     
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  2. Archers Road

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    The way to improve the life chances of my offspring (and yours, if you have somehow managed to reproduce) is to tax the rich. Tax them until the pips squeek, as someone once said. Interestingly, when Labour taxed the landed gentry, the media started blarting about the poor farmers (there are no poor farmers), and ****s like you fell for it.
     
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  3. DMD

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    You seem to have missed the lessons on the laffer curve. You also seem to have avoided the main point about using this knowledge on economics that you claim to have to improve your own position.
     
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  4. Black Caviar

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    define the rich
     
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  5. Mind The Duck

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    Screenshot_20250226_121057_Samsung Internet.jpg
     
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  6. Archers Road

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    The people whose wealth increases exponentially, simply by sitting on their assets; who make more in a month from passive income than you or I could earn in a year. Like the Saudi, Hong Kong and Muscovite businessmen who own multiple empty flats in West London that it's not even worth their while to let out.
     
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  7. Black Caviar

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    just checking it wasnt the peasants on 120k a year
     
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    Those people are already paying tax, no point rinsing them further.
     
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  10. Black Caviar

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    The New York Times gives liberals The Danish Permission to pivot on mass immigration

    One of the key roles The New York Times plays in American society is as guardians of the liberal Overton window. Its editorial line sets the terms for what's permissible to discuss in polite circles on the center left. Whether it's covid mask efficiency, trans kids, or, now, mass immigration. When The New York Times allows the counter argument to liberal orthodoxy to be published, it signals to its readers that it's time to pivot.

    On mass immigration, the center-left liberal orthodoxy has for the last decade in particular been that this is an unreserved good. It's cultural enrichment! It's much-needed workers! It's a humanitarian imperative! Any opposition was treated as de-facto racism, and the idea that a country would enforce its own borders as evidence of early fascism. But that era is coming to a close, and The New York Times is using The Danish Permission to prepare its readers for the end.

    As I've often argued, Denmark is an incredibly effective case study in such arguments, because it's commonly thought of as the holy land of progressivism. Free college, free health care, amazing public transit, obsessive about bikes, and a solid social safety net. It's basically everything people on the center left ever thought they wanted from government. In theory, at least.
     
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    What is “the Danish Permission”? NYT won’t let me read.
     
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  16. Toby

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    <laugh>

     
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  18. Black Caviar

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    Worked for me the first time, seems broken now.

    Definitely not installing that .ru browser extension though <laugh>
     
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  20. Black Caviar

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    its only on there because its blocked on github, its the same project, same guy
     
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