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I can’t suffer the current lot in Westminster but their counterparts in Holyrood are beyond a joke. A parish cooncil less the competency.
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It would be as well to forget taxing them - just strip them of wealth and redistribute it back into the ground-level stuff.I've written this time and time again. It's called fudge you capitalism and it needs to stop. I want to tax these people and put the smackers on companies paying people like this. That money was generated from within the UK from the UK populace and far more of it belongs in the piggy bank of the exchequer. Maybe then we shouldn't have such high levels of public debt, roads that aren't ever repaired properly and public services that work and better yet, protect and enhance the lives of millions of people who are have nots and will never be haves unless something systemic is changed.
Was told last night of a local estate owner who has taken farms back in hand and was touring the farms with his new estate manager when they bumped into one of their former tenants. Estate owner introduced the new estate manager to the former tenant along with a young lady, their new consultant.There are so many total arseholes who own “estates “ (farms) now with no clue, they are the ones that cant get staff
Part of the reason they’re raising rates is so that they have somewhere to go now the slowdown has begun. Once it really gets going they’ll be desperate to drop them again at the earliest possible opportunity.Watched a Wall Street Journal video on YouTube the other night calling this the ''job full'' recession, so far at least, surely at some point the interest rate will start to bite and slow down/layoffs etc will start to kick in... but when will that be I wonder?
They reckon each rate rise takes 2 full years to sink in and filter through. Personally if there was a recession before long I could see rates start to come back down.
That is comical and terrifying at the same time.Was told last night of a local estate owner who has taken farms back in hand and was touring the farms with his new estate manager when they bumped into one of their former tenants. Estate owner introduced the new estate manager to the former tenant along with a young lady, their new consultant.
So you two need an 18 year old girl to tell you what to do was his reply.
In the 90s interest rates were in the mid teens, up to 17 at one point. We still borrowed money to develop our business. We've got so used to very low rates that raising 1/4% appears to be the end of the world. If a business model, or even a house purchase, depends on low interest rates, it's not a very safe model.Watched a Wall Street Journal video on YouTube the other night calling this the ''job full'' recession, so far at least, surely at some point the interest rate will start to bite and slow down/layoffs etc will start to kick in... but when will that be I wonder?
They reckon each rate rise takes 2 full years to sink in and filter through. Personally if there was a recession before long I could see rates start to come back down.
The answer is simple stop taxing things ALL people/business's need /use on a daily basis like fuel ,food , alcohol and 20% vat on everything -alot of people might as well not bother getting up in the morning . How can people on ÂŁ9.50 an hour go and buy a pint at ÂŁ4.50 or fish and chips at ÂŁ11 ?Well after todays announcement from the Bank of England , there is something very very very wrong in the system...
So... let me get this straight:
* British Gas made a profit of ÂŁ1.3bn between January & June
* BP announced profits of ÂŁ6.95 billion between April and June alone
* Shell has profited by ÂŁ9.4bn in a year
The MEN at the top:
* John Pettigrew, boss of National Grid received ÂŁ6.5m bonus on top of his salary
* Chris O’Shea, chief executive of British Gas owner Centrica was paid almost £2m last year in salary and benefits
* Centrica's non-executive directors were paid almost ÂŁ1m
* Scottish Power's CEO Keith Anderson is on ÂŁ1.15m.
* E.On boss Michael Lewis is on ÂŁ1m
* EDF's Simone Rossi is also on ÂŁ1m
* And their top execs enjoyed a share of ÂŁ4.65m
* Peter Simpson of Anglian Water earned a ÂŁ1.3m pay package
* Welsh Water bosses awarded themselves bonuses of over ÂŁ930,000
* Severn Trent bosses awarded themselves bonuses of ÂŁ5.56m
* Thames Water's Sarah Bentley, received a ÂŁ727,000 bonus on top of her ÂŁ2m annual salary
Meanwhile there are...
* People who haven't had breakfast and/or lunch TODAY, because they can't afford it.
* People using FoodBanks because food is becoming more of a luxury than a necessity.
* Children celebrating a birthday without presents.
* Parents worrying about new school uniforms - and some schools enforcing rules which are not cost-effective.
* People who can't get to work because they can't afford to put petrol in their cars/pay for public transport anymore.
* People who are working so much they're making themselves ill, and they STILL CAN'T AFFORD to pay their bills.
* People who have been given fines by these same energy/water companies because they couldn't afford to pay their bills in the first place - increasing their debt.
* Customers being told to do STAR JUMPS TO KEEP WARM for crying out loud!
* Hose pipe bans when gallons of water leak away everyday.
* Elderly people NOT DRINKING because they're worried about running out of water!!!
All this and energy prices are set to rise up to 75% in October...
THIS IS MADNESS!.. I'm all for supporting profits ..I'm not for supporting greed at the cost of lives of others..
Something needs to change..
Why are customers' money being used to make life more comfortable for those who are making life more intolerable for the rest of us?
I actually don't understand how the energy companies are allowed to get away with this and why the government aren't stopping them instead of handing out money.....
Apparently a 1% increase on today’s “average mortgage” translates to an over £500 increase on the monthly payment .In the 90s interest rates were in the mid teens, up to 17 at one point. We still borrowed money to develop our business. We've got so used to very low rates that raising 1/4% appears to be the end of the world. If a business model, or even a house purchase, depends on low interest rates, it's not a very safe model.
Sad thing is, you’re stating the bleeding obvious. But there are huge numbers of people to whom the bleeding obvious is an undicovered country. There are even some on here from what I’ve been reading in the last few days. I’m actually worried by some of the posts.In the 90s interest rates were in the mid teens, up to 17 at one point. We still borrowed money to develop our business. We've got so used to very low rates that raising 1/4% appears to be the end of the world. If a business model, or even a house purchase, depends on low interest rates, it's not a very safe model.
So you’re gonna scrap VAT on everything? Do you realise how big a whole you’ve just created? And then you’re gonna tax a family farm, who are barely scraping by, with a land tax. How are they gonna pay that? It isn’t their fault the city are inflating land prices, it only actually becomes money when you sell up. So is that what you envisage/desire, everyone selling up?The answer is simple stop taxing things ALL people/business's need /use on a daily basis like fuel ,food , alcohol and 20% vat on everything -alot of people might as well not bother getting up in the morning . How can people on £9.50 an hour go and buy a pint at £4.50 or fish and chips at £11 ?
Start taxing where the money is -property/profit and remove exemptions reliefs etc. and end the obsession with house prices/ land values/high rents etc - the "opportunity cost " is destroying everything - do other countries have town centres full of charity shops ?
What is the point in asking people for money if they havent actually got any ?
Yes I know all the foreign money will go away-who cares ? , but you might be able afford somewhere to live though , your crops and stock might actually pay your mortgage and give you a salary .
What is point in putting/investing the nations working capital into some thing it already has bought and paid for generations ago ? -the recreation of a victorian economic values era perhaps ?
Nearly everything we buy on the farm is imported -things just cant be made/moved around
competitively here why ?
But such a policy wouldnt get you elected though as house prices are everything .
But they also say you cant buck the market -its going to be interesting soon .
Is there VAT on food now in the UK? Never used to be in the UK nor on lots of other things that we pay vat on in france (though food is at a lower rate than say booze)The answer is simple stop taxing things ALL people/business's need /use on a daily basis like fuel ,food , alcohol and 20% vat on everything -alot of people might as well not bother getting up in the morning . How can people on ÂŁ9.50 an hour go and buy a pint at ÂŁ4.50 or fish and chips at ÂŁ11 ?
Start taxing where the money is -property/profit and remove exemptions reliefs etc. and end the obsession with house prices/ land values/high rents etc - the "opportunity cost " is destroying everything - do other countries have town centres full of charity shops ?
What is the point in asking people for money if they havent actually got any ?
Yes I know all the foreign money will go away-who cares ? , but you might be able afford somewhere to live though , your crops and stock might actually pay your mortgage and give you a salary .
What is point in putting/investing the nations working capital into some thing it already has bought and paid for generations ago ? -the recreation of a victorian economic values era perhaps ?
Nearly everything we buy on the farm is imported -things just cant be made/moved around
competitively here why ?
But such a policy wouldnt get you elected though as house prices are everything .
But they also say you cant buck the market -its going to be interesting soon .
The proper rich don't pay tax.I guess the other side of the coin is these people are then taxed at effectively over 50% where as if the money stayed in the company it would be taxed at 19% or less on those profits, it’s bit like footballers massive pay quoted but by the time they pay over 50% tax the NI & then their agent takes probably a 10% cut what’s left doesn’t look quite so much, gross pay like gross profit is a bit misleading, it’s nett that you end up with that never looks so good!
If household budgets are squeezed ÂŁ3,000, maybe up to ÂŁ5-6,000+ annually, then something has to give. Less cash to spend on things.
Now BoE start raising interest rates, so more mortgage pain.
Demand destruction. Factories on reduced hours = lower wages to pay the increasing living costs.
It's all energy price related. No reduction in energy prices will mean recession imho.
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I didnt say that -but ask yourself why are they only scraping by whilst probably working very hard for the privelege ?So you’re gonna scrap VAT on everything? Do you realise how big a whole you’ve just created? And then you’re gonna tax a family farm, who are barely scraping by, with a land tax. How are they gonna pay that? It isn’t their fault the city are inflating land prices, it only actually becomes money when you sell up. So is that what you envisage/desire, everyone selling up?
Recession will be very expensive in reduced tax receipts, unemployment benefits etc.agree - they would be better to address / regulate energy prices than mess with interest rates to dig themselves out of this hole
We borrowed from the AMC at 14% fixed to buy a small farm in 1974,and an overdraft for another half of the amount,It wasnt easy but doable. Variable costs were lower and produce sales were higher in real inflation adjusted terms.Thats the difference. All the work was done by David Brown 990s,which you could pick up a very decent 2nd hand one for ÂŁ700-ÂŁ800. Full time Labour,ÂŁ40-ÂŁ50/week,or ÂŁ2/hour self employed. Red diesel and electric cheap,and no Council Tax,although rates but most exempt.In the 90s interest rates were in the mid teens, up to 17 at one point. We still borrowed money to develop our business. We've got so used to very low rates that raising 1/4% appears to be the end of the world. If a business model, or even a house purchase, depends on low interest rates, it's not a very safe model.