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A new wonder of the world to be built in London

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  • AndyGuil
    AndyGuil Posts: 1,668 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Taxing dispsoable income wouldn't work. Unsurprisingly the tax intake reduce if this happened.
  • grizzly1911
    grizzly1911 Posts: 9,965 Forumite
    AndyGuil wrote: »
    Taxing dispsoable income wouldn't work. Unsurprisingly the tax intake reduce if this happened.

    Did it drop when VAT was increased?
    "If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....

    "big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham
  • grizzly1911
    grizzly1911 Posts: 9,965 Forumite
    IveSeenTheLight wrote: »
    It may be more than just 2 gardeners per year.
    what about the plants costs?
    What if the public don;t come up with the £150 million donations, who will subsidise.

    I merely asked if this was the best way to utilise public donations or if it could go to better use elsewhere

    I live in a small town it is one of half a dozen similar sized ones close by. We have always had flower beds maintained, traffic islands and hanging baskets refreshed 3 times a year. Gangs of council workmen come in to remove the old and plant anew.

    I have often wondered why they don't simply plant them up with shrubs and be done with it. There is the time and the plant cost. I am sure the right shrubs would require much less attention.

    Then there are the bowling greens.... tineing, sanding, fertilising, edging, cutting with precision mowers every other day in season.
    "If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....

    "big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham
  • IveSeenTheLight
    IveSeenTheLight Posts: 13,322 Forumite
    grizzly1911 wrote: »
    I live in a small town it is one of half a dozen similar sized ones close by. We have always had flower beds maintained, traffic islands and hanging baskets refreshed 3 times a year. Gangs of council workmen come in to remove the old and plant anew.

    I have often wondered why they don't simply plant them up with shrubs and be done with it. There is the time and the plant cost. I am sure the right shrubs would require much less attention.

    Then there are the bowling greens.... tineing, sanding, fertilising, edging, cutting with precision mowers every other day in season.

    My local council's debt has risen 65% from £369 million in 2003/4 to £619m.

    http://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/Article.aspx/3182209

    I often wonder if such frivolous debt spending would have incurred if we had lived within our means.
    :wall:
    What we've got here is....... failure to communicate.
    Some men you just can't reach.
    :wall:
  • nickj_2
    nickj_2 Posts: 7,052 Forumite
    IveSeenTheLight wrote: »
    My local council's debt has risen 65% from £369 million in 2003/4 to £619m.

    http://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/Article.aspx/3182209

    I often wonder if such frivolous debt spending would have incurred if we had lived within our means.

    get a bridge , stick a few trees on it and all will be well
  • vivatifosi
    vivatifosi Posts: 18,746 Forumite
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    I really like it. Hadn't seen this thread till now so a bit late joining in. Conceptually it reminds me a bit of the High Line in New York and I like that too:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Line_(New_York_City)

    Apparently that was influenced by a similar scheme in Paris.
    Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
  • AndyGuil
    AndyGuil Posts: 1,668 Forumite
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    grizzly1911 wrote: »
    Did it drop when VAT was increased?
    Perhaps the better question is would it work? In short no. It has been funded through alternative means. A constant focus on raising taxes is what drove many people away from the UK in the brain drain. Not the right road to take.
  • grizzly1911
    grizzly1911 Posts: 9,965 Forumite
    AndyGuil wrote: »
    Perhaps the better question is would it work? In short no. It has been funded through alternative means. A constant focus on raising taxes is what drove many people away from the UK in the brain drain. Not the right road to take.

    Did we really lose lots of people in the brain drain. not doubt we lost a few but did they really leave in their droves?

    How many people actually pay really high taxes?
    "If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....

    "big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham
  • AndyGuil
    AndyGuil Posts: 1,668 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    edited 7 November 2013 at 11:42PM
    grizzly1911 wrote: »
    Did we really lose lots of people in the brain drain. not doubt we lost a few but did they really leave in their droves?

    How many people actually pay really high taxes?
    Graduate emigration alone was 20%
    The top 1% of earners pay a third of all the taxes.
    The top 10% pay over half of all taxes.
  • Fella
    Fella Posts: 7,921 Forumite
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    It's funny, if you read a fantasy novel where the richest 10% paid for the poorest half of the population and were widely hated in return** it'd seem so far-fetched it would make poor reading.






    **Apart from the ones who play football of course.
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