Do you think spending should keep rising, as it has almost every year without fail for decades? What level do you think taxes should rise to? Have you heard of the Laffer Curve?
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Do you think spending should keep rising, as it has almost every year without fail for decades? What level do you think taxes should rise to? Have you heard of the Laffer Curve?
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Please don't try swerving like that.
You can treat these questions as rhetorical, or you can actually answer them.
Are anti-semitic jokes, with Jew-hating tropes, with offensive terms like "k---", acceptable?
Are racist jokes, with race-hate tropes, with offensive terms like "n---er" or "w--", acceptable?
When you've pondered those, think whether jokes exploiting misogynistic concepts and language should be acceptable.
None of this means I don't have a sense of humour - I very much do, and I enjoy comedy.
But I also know that just as it's quite possible to have comedy which does not rely on being offensive to Jews, it's possible to have it without relying on being offensive to women.
You can treat these questions as rhetorical, or you can actually answer them.
Are anti-semitic jokes, with Jew-hating tropes, with offensive terms like "k---", acceptable?
Are racist jokes, with race-hate tropes, with offensive terms like "n---er" or "w--", acceptable?
When you've pondered those, think whether jokes exploiting misogynistic concepts and language should be acceptable.
None of this means I don't have a sense of humour - I very much do, and I enjoy comedy.
But I also know that just as it's quite possible to have comedy which does not rely on being offensive to Jews, it's possible to have it without relying on being offensive to women.
I doubt anyone else cares. Start a new thread about it?
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I have.
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It's a philosophical concept that doesn't exist in reality. Nobody knows what shape it is, or what the numbers are, or where any country currently is along the curve, or would be if taxes rose or fell by any particular amount.
Didn't you know that?
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If you can’t be bothered to address what I actually said. Then you might as well keep posting nonsense.
The example I gave was employee paying 5% and employer paying 5%. 5 for 5.
Those who have not accrued decent pots are the hardest hit. Because those who have already done so, did it without the extra tax. So people starting careers are hardest hit.
And the obvious outcome will be employers reducing contributions. There is no longer any benefit to them.
Sorry you didn’t understand.. again
I’m already capped at 10k tax free so it makes little difference to me.
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In a world where wealthy people, companies and high earners can choose where to pay taxes or invest, it obviously makes sense or did you think that Denmark for example is full of IP registrations because the Danish have lots of creative people?
Maybe it’s because royalties on copyright are tax free.
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Ah, the latest lefty claptrap.
You really don't think it exists? That if you tax at 99% then you wouldn't get less revenue than if you taxed at say 30%?
Obviously there's a point at which revenue peaks.
Also it's a slow death once it's exceeded, as the economy doesn't die overnight. It limps on, just long enough for a dipstick chancellor to think that not much damage was done last year so more of the same will work again. In reality if taxes stayed as they are then the economy would continue contracting due to last year's damage. Further rises will just increase rate of collapse, this year and further into the future.
The effects of tax take time. But once all those businesses have closed and everyone's been laid off, it takes decades for the damage to be undone. Businesses close a lot faster than they appear and grow.
Words are only offensive because society allows that particular word to be offensive.
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Is that offensive?
What did you mean when you said "Words are only offensive because society allows that particular word to be offensive"?
If in what I wrote about anti-semitic jokes I'd said
Are anti-semitic jokes, comparing Jews to rats, acceptable?
would you have agreed that they're not?
I'll leave him to it.
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