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UK top earner tax to be cut

#1  Postby Paul G » Mar 16, 2012 9:33 am

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012 ... p-tax-rate

George Osborne poised to slash top tax rate from 50p to 40p
Chancellor's dramatic move to cut top rate of income tax in next week's budget will delight the Conservative right
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#2  Postby Wiðercora » Mar 16, 2012 9:37 am

Now, I'm no expert, but. Aren't the Tories making all these cuts to public services to try and 'cut the deficit' and 'balance the budget', ie stop spending more than we rake in? So, surely you would not cut the tax rate because then you would take less in. Or something.
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#3  Postby Paul G » Mar 16, 2012 9:46 am

Yes that's pretty much the case.
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#4  Postby mattthomas » Mar 16, 2012 9:49 am

Wiðercora wrote:Now, I'm no expert, but. Aren't the Tories making all these cuts to public services to try and 'cut the deficit' and 'balance the budget', ie stop spending more than we rake in? So, surely you would not cut the tax rate because then you would take less in. Or something.

Did you notice the bit about the lib dems supporting it in return for an increase in taxable allowance for everyone else?

I would love to know where and how the shortfall will be made up.
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#5  Postby Paul G » Mar 16, 2012 9:54 am

mattwilson wrote:
Wiðercora wrote:Now, I'm no expert, but. Aren't the Tories making all these cuts to public services to try and 'cut the deficit' and 'balance the budget', ie stop spending more than we rake in? So, surely you would not cut the tax rate because then you would take less in. Or something.

Did you notice the bit about the lib dems supporting it in return for an increase in taxable allowance for everyone else?

I would love to know where and how the shortfall will be made up.


For everyone else!?
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#6  Postby ED209 » Mar 16, 2012 9:57 am

There is no shortfall, because apparently the 50% rate raises no tax revenue at all (while simultaneously crippling entrepreneurship, preventing youth employment, and chasing our best talent overseas).
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#7  Postby mattthomas » Mar 16, 2012 10:02 am

Paul G wrote:For everyone else!?


Okay, I paraphrased and did a shit job of it :lol:
In return for supporting the measure the Lib Dems are pressing for a large increase in the personal allowance for those in work, a commitment to a wealth tax based on property, and a series of measures that end tax reliefs for the rich.


First bold - Increase in personal allowance for tens of millions of people, losing a fuck of a lot of money.
Second bold - How can they end tax relief for the rich when at the same time reducing their tax, it's fucking ridondculous!

I'm wouldn't trust this government to handle the cash box at a school tuck shop :crazy:
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#8  Postby ED209 » Mar 16, 2012 10:07 am

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#9  Postby mattthomas » Mar 16, 2012 10:14 am


Well we know they can't do their fucking sums already... did you read my example about the child benefit fuckups?

http://www.rationalskepticism.org/news- ... l#p1169330
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#10  Postby ED209 » Mar 16, 2012 10:54 am

no...i didn't see that thread at all... ;)
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#11  Postby mattthomas » Mar 16, 2012 11:11 am

ED209 wrote:no...i didn't see that thread at all... ;)

Okay so my post was actually to you in that thread, but I meant, do you remember it :ask:
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#12  Postby pensioner » Mar 16, 2012 11:46 am

I wish you guys would stop moaning about the rich getting another tax brake, you know it makes sense. Anyone can become a billionaire, after all a teacher who earns £40,000 a year only has to work for 25,000 years to earn a billion.
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#13  Postby Nicko » Mar 16, 2012 12:06 pm

Trickle-down economics strikes again.

How long is it going to be before the public realise that wealth doesn't trickle down; it trickles up? That is, after all, why the wealthy are wealthy in the first place.
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#14  Postby pensioner » Mar 16, 2012 12:22 pm

Nicko wrote:Trickle-down economics strikes again.

How long is it going to be before the public realise that wealth doesn't trickle down; it trickles up? That is, after all, why the wealthy are wealthy in the first place.


The trickle down scam, pay the rich more to work harder, pay the poor less to get the same result. Good init.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/busin ... wanted=all

"Whatever happened to “unearned income”?

That used to be the normal term for income from investments — dividends, interest and capital gains.
For some, that term produced images of “coupon clippers,” another term you don’t hear much anymore. The coupons in question were not the kind that get you 25 cents off on Jell-O at the grocery store. They were the ones that came attached to bonds in a precomputer age. To get your interest payment every six months, you literally had to clip off the coupon and take it to your bank.

More than half a century ago, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed taxing dividends at lower rates than wages, Representative John W. McCormack, a Massachusetts Democrat who later was to become speaker of the House, was outraged.
“The Republican tax bill is indefensible in that portion which gives great benefits to corporations and constitutes a bonanza to stockholders, the larger ones in particular,” he said in 1954. “It is unjust and in my opinion morally wrong to make a person with earned income pay considerably more in taxes than persons with unearned income from dividends.”
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#15  Postby Strontium Dog » Mar 16, 2012 12:23 pm

Nicko wrote:Trickle-down economics strikes again.


The only thing that seems to be trickling down on this forum is stupidity.

Whether or not the temporary 50p tax rate goes next week or not, the wealthy are going to come out of this budget paying more and the poorer paying less. This is an indisputable fact. Anyone stating otherwise is not dealing in facts and has a political axe to grind.
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#16  Postby mattthomas » Mar 16, 2012 12:31 pm

Strontium Dog wrote:
Nicko wrote:Trickle-down economics strikes again.


The only thing that seems to be trickling down on this forum is stupidity.

Whether or not the temporary 50p tax rate goes next week or not, the wealthy are going to come out of this budget paying more and the poorer paying less. This is an indisputable fact. Anyone stating otherwise is not dealing in facts and has a political axe to grind.

Since you know what's in the little red briefcase and we don't, fancy sharing a bit of your knowledge?
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#17  Postby Strontium Dog » Mar 16, 2012 12:34 pm

I don't know exactly what's in the briefcase, just the input that is going into it.
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#18  Postby ED209 » Mar 16, 2012 12:36 pm

Blind faith and bluster?
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#19  Postby Dudely » Mar 16, 2012 1:03 pm

Strontium Dog wrote:
Nicko wrote:Trickle-down economics strikes again.


The only thing that seems to be trickling down on this forum is stupidity.

Whether or not the temporary 50p tax rate goes next week or not, the wealthy are going to come out of this budget paying more and the poorer paying less. This is an indisputable fact. Anyone stating otherwise is not dealing in facts and has a political axe to grind.


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Re: UK top earner tax to be cut

#20  Postby mattthomas » Mar 16, 2012 1:07 pm

"does George Osborne really want to be the Marie Antoinette of British politics?"
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danho ... -politics/

He already fucking is... When we cry unleaded is too expensive... "Let them use super unleaded"
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