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ruggedtoast wrote: »Corbyn promises to tax wealth hoarders rather than wage earners.
Great news for the young, not so great for Tory voting boomers rattling around five bedroom houses with two cars in the drive way and a holiday bolt hole in Devon.
Here comes the usual Socialist policy of envy. Why shouldn't someone have those things if they have paid for them out of their own resources?
Instead of envying it, why don't you aspire to it?
(I'm a Boomer, two-bedroom bungalow and one car. We do have a holiday bolthole in N. Wales, but it's a static caravan).(AKA HRH_MUngo)
Member #10 of £2 savers club
Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology: Terry Eagleton0 -
He wouldn't say how he do it and ruled out a property tax.ruggedtoast wrote: »Corbyn promises to tax wealth hoarders rather than wage earners.
Great news for the young, not so great for Tory voting boomers rattling around five bedroom houses with two cars in the drive way and a holiday bolt hole in Devon.0 -
one only has to think about the poor people in Venezuela and how the national socialist have wrecked the country.
Corbyn still thinks they provide an alternative future
https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/309065744954580992?lang=en-gb
http://www.venezuelasolidarity.co.uk/video-president-nicolas-maduro-pays-tribute-to-tony-benn-in-conversation-with-jeremy-corbyn-mp/0 -
ruggedtoast wrote: »Corbyn promises to tax wealth hoarders rather than wage earners.
Great! So how's that going to play in Worcester South and Crewe & Nantwich - key Tory seats Jezzer must win (after he's retaken every SNP seat, natch) to form a government?
Those 50 to 120 Tory seats all now securely in the bag, are they?0 -
ruggedtoast wrote: »Corbyn promises to tax wealth hoarders rather than wage earners.
Great news for the young, not so great for Tory voting boomers rattling around five bedroom houses with two cars in the drive way and a holiday bolt hole in Devon.
In other words savers? The country is infinitely better off having pensioners who can afford to pay their own bills than skint old-timers relying on the state.
The only remotely workable model is that people earn as much as they can while they can then live off what they've accumulated afterwards.
Rather than go & do the same you appear to just want to hate the people who worked to put themselves in an OK financial position.0 -
Many speakers talked of reducing 'excessive' profits, of 'putting workers before profits'.
Reducing profits = reduced pensions (and ISA's) for EVERYONE.
Most every pension invests directly or indirectly in shares that participate in corporate profits. Super annuated teachers schemes have their values boosted by the overall fund placing funds with investment houses that purchase shares.
Harming all of us with reduced pensions is hardly a vote winner is it, or am I missing something?
No one, but no one is making this crucial and pivotal point to the left, why?
Other speakers spoke of 'a fairer deal for pensioners', huh?0 -
Harming all of us with reduced pensions is hardly a vote winner is it, or am I missing something?
No one, but no one is making this crucial and pivotal point to the left, why?
Patience, grasshopper: it's not the 2020 GE campaign yet.
Or the 2025 one. Or 2030. Or 2035. Etc.
I can see the Conservative posters in 2030 now.
"We weren't wrong. Were we?"
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Media/Pix/pictures/2010/3/25/1269510893554/Conservative-demon-eyes-c-001.jpg
"Same old Labour"
http://www.conservativehome.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Labour-tax-rises.png
"Labour has modernised. Now they'll cost you £10,000 more in taxes"
http://www.libdemvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Labour-Tax-Bombshell-1024x517.jpg0 -
ruggedtoast wrote: »Business leaders reeling as McDonnel promises living wage and a return to unionism!
The minimum wage will be nearly £10 per hour by 2020 so it's not a big deal.ruggedtoast wrote: »Yes! Glorious socialism.
A minimum of £500 billion more borrowed. Glorious. More debt for the young.ruggedtoast wrote: »Socialism that will smack the fat cats, the property hoarders, and the bosses squarely in the mouth!
Charming as ever. Your posts are getting more and more violent.0 -
setmefree2 wrote: »Charming as ever. Your posts are getting more and more violent.
Labour is and always has been all about malice masquerading as virtue.0 -
seven-day-weekend wrote: »Instead of envying it, why don't you aspire to it?
Because it's easier to sit around in LP meetings moaning than to work hard and improve your lot.0
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