I don't have an issue with the wealthy paying more tax - correct. I don't have an issue with poor people receiving state help - correct.
Are we witnessing, in real time, the collapse of the left wing.
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I say that the absence of democracy can be observed by the proportion prevented from voting.
So certainly a country where more than half the adult population had no right to vote, such as the UK prior to the 1929 election, cannot be described as a democratic country. Biker boy disagrees.
There are others.
Biking uses his imagination to describe the fantasy he carries in his head.
He likes the notion of "the undeserving poor"
So that would innclude the USA where millions of black voters were disenfranchised by new State voting regulations?
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So you do live in a country where the ordinary working person can afford to live in a home with a garden.
Glad we got there in the end.
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Where do you live? France ?
We have our own version in this country.
“Elections are the cornerstone of our democracy and yet we are burdened by a system which is both ineffective and inefficient, where millions of people are disenfranchised because they are incorrectly registered or not on the electoral register. In the year of a general election, this is a damning indictment of the UK’s electoral registration arrangements and a threat to the rights of British voters.
Clive Betts, Chair of the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (LUHC) Committee
It's a very popular way of dealing with the issue of inequality.
They can't in the UK
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Here he is, Car man the liar.
On the bib I tend to agree with you. I think, if CEO remuneration packages were capped (globally, with everyone strictly adhering to it) at say 30x typical worker, those who want to climb the greasy pole to become CEO would still have the drive and determination to do so. If nothing else because earning hundreds of thousands is still preferable to earning tens of thousands.
OT but it's like top sports, let's take football. Top players can earn £500k+ weekly. It was on the telly box yesterday about one of the top premier league clubs currently struggling financially. Their player wage bill accounts for something like 95% of their monthly expenditure. So what's happening? Ticket prices are increasing.
If, globally, football player salaries were capped at say £200k weekly (strictly adhered to by clubs) the individuals who strive to reach the top in that game would surely still have the drive to do so?
We've created this economic system where 'the markets dictate', however one thing's for sure. It has led to greater wage inequality and for consumers, higher prices.
There needs to be some sort of reset, however what that is I don't know.
Rolls Royce were on the bones of their r's during covid, share price around £1 and facing severe problems. Tufan Erginbilgic took over as ceo and share price on Friday was £7.50, brokers have put on target prices for the share between £9-£11, profits announced last week were 2.5 billion compared to 1.5 billion the year before.
I've no idea what his salary is, don't really care.
Start with football, if the fans stopped buying season tickets the merch or even going to games, the owners would sit up and listen. Ordinary people have enormous political and economic power. Instead we get Chelsea fans wishing abramavich came back to service the debt
