We need a 200% tax!

Harry_Powell

purch wrote: »

Yes, cos every other country in the World would happily allow us to export to them while at the same time we were slapping a 200% Tax on their exports.

Brilliant :T

Forumonics at it's finest :rolleyes:

I must admit that I am seriously considering whether to keep on contributing to this particular forum, indeed the amount of time I spend in here has diminished dramatically.

There seems to have been an influx of people with the mentality of 6 year olds. Yesterday I was contributing to a thread where one person reckoned a law should be put into place to reposess houses if a person missed a single mortgage payment, another bloke was argusing that everyone should be given a quarter of an acre of land to build a house on if they pay National Insurance for 5 years.

The quality of the debate has gone downhill in a shocking way, and it leads one to wonder what's the point of discussing anything with people with such diminished mental capacity.

carolt

Harry_Powell wrote: »

The quality of the debate has gone downhill in a socking way, and it leads one to wonder what's the point of disdussing anyhting with people with such diminished mental capacity.

And there you have it.

Harry_Powell

carolt wrote: »

And there you have it.

lol, I just noticed that too and corrected my spelling/typos just before reading your post.

Probably a large part of the idiot posts are posted by the same person, so the 'socking' comment is perhaps close to the mark.

tomterm8

kabayiri wrote: »

In a similar fashion, one of the common misconceptions about Open Source software was that it was 'free'. The total cost of using such software was never free. The idea was to commodotise and hence take value out of the core software components, and allow additional 'value' to be delivered in the local market, through customisation and support, all of which would be paid for.

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With regard to open source software, "free" isn't an economic concept. The idea is that the software code should be available for software developers to use without prejudice. It has always been possible to charge for the actual program itself, or for various maintenance or administration functions. There are very good reasons for software code to be available to programmers since the most efficient solution to a problem is usually to use someone elses code, and the easiest way to customise software is to alter the code.

Thrugelmir

Ban foreign holidays. That would keep around £6 billion per annum within the UK economy.

N1AK

SLITHER99 wrote: »

It would have to be phased in, but eventually every commodity built outside the UK should have 200% tax. You want a German car? That's cool, 200% tax! You want a Japanese TV? That's cool, 200% tax.

I've never understood why some people are so determined to keep jobs like making mass produced clothes and packing them in boxes in the UK. You can't have a 1st world lifestyle doing 3rd world jobs.

Secondly, does that mean 200% taxes on products that can't/are difficult to produce in the UK? We'd love to buy that new Swiss MRI machine for the NHS but we can't afford it due to the 200% tax, Oranges are now 3x as expensive as they are being produced in UK greenhouses rather than Spanish fields, but never mind you can have some tasty English cabbage instead

SLITHER99 wrote: »

This will create a demand for Made In Britain. No 200% tax on that, directly supporting a British workforce and even *shudder* the possiblilty of exporting goods again?

What you don't think every country affected by this won't match the (effectively) tariffs? Want to buy a british weapon (200% tax), british plane engine (200% tax) etc?

mr_fishbulb

Harry_Powell wrote: »

I must admit that I am seriously considering whether to keep on contributing to this particular forum, indeed the amount of time I spend in here has diminished dramatically.

There seems to have been an influx of people with the mentality of 6 year olds. Yesterday I was contributing to a thread where one person reckoned a law should be put into place to reposess houses if a person missed a single mortgage payment, another bloke was argusing that everyone should be given a quarter of an acre of land to build a house on if they pay National Insurance for 5 years.

The quality of the debate has gone downhill in a shocking way, and it leads one to wonder what's the point of discussing anything with people with such diminished mental capacity.

Agree with that completely. It makes you wonder if some of the people on here are even old enough to own a house.

Anyone know a good economics forum where you can learn something, rather that watching a fight on every thread, separated only by these things:

:beer:
:j
:rotfl:
:T

?

sabretoothtigger

Tried in the 1930's and many other times I believe

The opposing argument would be one of mutual benefit or you could just look at government supported industry for examples of the resulting inefficiency of lower competition

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Ban foreign holidays. That would keep around £6 billion per annum within the UK economy.

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Thrugelmir

sabretoothtigger wrote: »

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No need , force everyone to travel with RuinAir.

SLITHER99

LOL. I have to admit I'm no economist and it was only a top-down idea. I work in the electronics industry myself and it is a cut throat market right now. Most companies I've contracted for all tell the same story of nobody buying their products and most people get laid off as the same job cab be done cheaper overseas. Maybe we should be heavily taxing outsourcing instead? One company I presently work for (about to not anymore) recently opened a large assembly and packing hub, 600 staff strong. They didn't even bother looking for UK workers, all of them are polish imports! Not a single advert went out for UK staff members. Surely that's not right!?

There is a reason we need low level industrial workers. For example, everyone needs shoes and there used to be a lot more factories here. I know, my auntie worked for a major manufacturer and, although not the best paid job, she loved it and was heartbroken when they closed up shop in favour of overseas production. Plus it's better people who don't have the qualifications for a high ranking industry jobs to be doing low level jobs instead of being on the dole, right? Not everyone gets to be an astronaught!

OK the tax idea probably doesn't work admitedly, but nothing wrong with thinking outside the box... an idea for progression is still an idea, right? I don't mind you saying it's a bad idea as you've said why so all good! So, improve it.

Anyways, just for the record, Nissan and Renault are the same company. So buying either only improves the French economy.