Good Morning - Monday debate

What about WHU paying £200m tax for the OS, bet you would not like that muffinboy!

comment by Don Draper's dandruff (U20155)
posted 12 hours, 12 minutes ago
comment by BARVIS (U21244)
posted 5 minutes ago
Read in the times yesterday that the former glaxo smith klein ceo is getting a pension of £600k a year - that's truly gangster capitalism. Meanwhile a few years back white dee was villified for claiming her modest weekly benefit entitlement, otherwise she would've had nothing to live on, and everyone was looking down at her, despite the fact she was a very emphatic and caring person in her community.

But I guess we're wired to think someone in a fancy suit sitting in a boardroom with a good education is somehow a better person in society.
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erm, you can't see the difference between a guy claiming a pension from the company he used to work for and someone on benefits?

in answer to the original question, even buffett thinks he should pay more tax, his rate is artificially low because of the dubious differential tax treatment of carried interest - something trump may well overturn fyi. in the uk carried interest is treated differently to normal capital gains, and is still taxed at 28% (vs 20%) vs the top rate of income tax of 45%.

that should certainly be changed over here.

raise the rates too much and you just get what the co-founder of facebook did, ie you leave the country and head for somewhere with lower taxes.

what i do find odd in the UK is that the higher rate of tax kicks in quite early - ask any londoner especially whether they feel rich on £42k a year - so that the guy on £40k a year has a tax rate just 5pp lower than the guy on £40m a year.
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I can't see why people rant about a system that provides a modest weekly benefit to those from typically disadvantaged backgrounds who are on hard times as white dee was in that ghetto. Yet don't think anything of the rewards at boardroom level which are obscene.

Think I read a Londoner needs to earn 60k a year just to be able to save for a deposit to buy a home.

My personal view is that homes are too fundamental to any society to be left to the mercy of the free market.

comment by GeniusGreaves Optimist Supreme (U1302)
posted 11 hours, 52 minutes ago
What about WHU paying £200m tax for the OS, bet you would not like that muffinboy!
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He's had a mare here, no more so than any other thread he pops into.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/its-scandal-west-ham-taxpayer-7773083

Pay the tax man you dope

posted 14 hours, 3 minutes ago
What about WHU paying £200m tax for the OS, bet you would not like that muffinboy!


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West Ham are paying more than £200mil to the taxpayer in our tenure for a white elephant.

Just 15 million of the over three hundred million it took to convert it to a football stadium so that means the tsk payer is down 285 million

How's that for doping

Do you think the tenanants should pay the whole cost of your house?

Look up the costing and payments

City earn the council money so much so the council won't let us buy it.

We also paid to finish the stadium

Even after 99years Taxpayers own the London Stadium.

Anyone care to buy my share ?

Where in Australian shrubs?