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[DimPrawn]

TAX

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4522078.stm

Millions of pounds paid in annual bonuses to City staff should be subject to a windfall tax to fund the NHS, say MPs. But is working in London's financial hub really as flash as it sounds?

Up to 1,000 City workers will earn an annual bonus of £1m-plus, it is estimated. To observers on the outside, such sums underline the impression of a world of inflated earnings and conspicuous consumption.

This image is hardly diminished when Labour MPs urge the Treasury to boost funding in the NHS with a one-off raid on what one of them, John McDonnell, calls "obscene profiteering" among "wide boy" bankers.



Comrades, these capitalist pigs should be shot, not taxed.

[scotspine]

ok

ya...

[Bovvered]

Comrades, these capitalist pigs should be shot, not taxed.

Feck me what's with all the socialism? Are we not a load of profiteering w***ers ourselves?

[DimPrawn]

I cannot see how it is "fair" for anyone to earn more than minimum wage.

All other evil profits should be held by the kind and wise Labour government, where they can efficiently spend it on shiny hospitals, and lovely pretty schools full of smiling, healthy and educated people.

I understand socialism now. It's like knowing the mind of a great and benelovant god. Bless you Mr Blair and Brown.

[scotspine]

I cannot see how it is "fair" for anyone to earn more than minimum wage.

All other evil profits should be held by the kind and wise Labour government, where they can efficiently spend it on shiny hospitals, and lovely pretty schools full of smiling, healthy and educated people.

I understand socialism now. It's like knowing the mind of a great and benelovant god. Bless you Mr Blair and Brown.

i see you've had a personal 'road to damascus' dp. how's about starting with sharing all your own ill-gotten from those .not contracts?

[John Galt]

I cannot see how it is "fair" for anyone to earn more than minimum wage.

All other evil profits should be held by the kind and wise Labour government, where they can efficiently spend it on shiny hospitals, and lovely pretty schools full of smiling, healthy and educated people.

I understand socialism now. It's like knowing the mind of a great and benelovant god. Bless you Mr Blair and Brown.

And soon you will be moved to Stepford for your final training as a good CFKAGB citizen.

[BlasterBates]

For anbody who might want to congratulate John McDonnell on his proposal to tax "wide-boy bankers on their obscene profits" can contact him here:

Rt Honourable Labour MP for Hayes and Harliington

[AlfredJPruffock]

I understand socialism now.

Reminds me of a book Im reading about Cuban society at the moment, one bitter Cuban contrasts communism with catholicism.

You see Amigo, with Catholicism we had heaven and hell.

But with communism we have only hell.


sure nuff !

[Mailman]

I thought the obvious thing was to reduce the over all tax burden and make taxation a much simpler task (ie. make it so there is absolutely no point in tax avoidance). A simple 20% flat tax rate for everyone earning over 29k would about do the trick.

I know, Im a visionary and a radical and my ideas have no place in this country as Id put tens of thousands of tax people out of work

Mailman

[DimPrawn]

Fromt the BBC website regarding city bonuses:

I think it is ridiculous that such large bonuses should be paid to the so called bankers and financial world employees when there are millions around the world who are starving and going without medical help. And at home too. All those homeless and poverty stricken Britons living on the streets without any help from the rich who are getting richer and have all the money to spend on a shameless luxurious lifestyle while all the rest around them go without.
Joy Butler, Wiesbaden

Leftie clap trap on Blairs Broadcasting Corp!
The politics of envy!
It's so un "fair"!