Labour planning secret tax on 'nice houses'

ManAtHome

MrsE wrote: »

Dear God, please don't let these idiots get in again.

Doesn't really matter who gets in next - heaps of billions will have to paid back and property taxes will be high on the list.

applehead_3

If you want to live in a nicer area with better schools, nicer surroundings, less congestion, then you should expect to pay for it.


Typical small minded Brit attitude.........

beingjdc

applehead wrote: »

If you want to live in a nicer area with better schools, nicer surroundings, less congestion, then you should expect to pay for it.

Typical small minded Brit attitude.........

Find me a country in the world which has houses which are not more expensive per square foot in nicer or more prosperous areas, and where property tax isn't to some degree higher for higher value properties!

Masomnia

applehead wrote: »

If you want to live in a nicer area with better schools, nicer surroundings, less congestion, then you should expect to pay for it.


Typical small minded Brit attitude.........

So you think people in areas with poorer schools, worse surroundings, more congestion, should pay as much money as those with better facilities? How on earth is that fair? The poor get worse provision for the same money and thereby subsidize the rich, you think that's a better system?

[Deleted User]

Don't poor areas consume more council resources than rich areas? Housing benefits, more policing etc

Also, those more expensive houses in better areas pay more council tax than the identical sized houses in more degraded areas - so, they already are paying more money proportional to their house type.

pickles110564

Tuckerpoor wrote: »

Think your a niave !!!!!, not all lower clases have had good options or ability to achieve in later life.

Everybody enters this life with the same gift, it is then up to them how hard they work at school to learn (which of course is free to everyone) they then decide which path to take, it is up to them.
My youngest daughter is still not two and has been able to count to ten and string sentances with 4 or more words for ages.

SingleSue

And some of the now so called lower classes were born into the middle class but find themselves in the lower classes due to circumstances outside of their control.

It doesn't always matter how hard you worked at school, how bright you are or how hard you worked in your career..!!!!!! happens, if it was done on work alone, I would be in the upper middle class!

cogito

It isn't about penalizing 'nice areas' to subsidize bad ones. Half the time it isn't that an area is '!!!!!!' because of the way people there are, it's because they are neglected by those in power.

Well, we had to wait until Xmas before we got the most ridiculous post of the year. Well done.

mewbie_2

pickles110564 wrote: »

My youngest daughter is still not two and has been able to count to ten and string sentances with 4 or more words for ages.

Blimey, overtaken her dad already?

olly300

pickles110564 wrote: »

My youngest daughter is still not two and has been able to count to ten and string sentances with 4 or more words for ages.

And?

I've known and know children around 2 who can speak proper sentences and count. In fact some of them can do this in more than one language.

I also know children who don't speak at all until they are about 3, come out with very complex sentences and in fact the problem is now they have found their voice they won't shut up. (Doesn't mean they have not understood you since they were about 1 they have just decided they don't want to speak.)

The real issue is by the age of 4 the child should be able to speak properly.