#tax morale

[knifearo]

like it's honestly kind of ridiculous at this point

[valyrfia]

if you’re expecting your favourite multimillionaire rich boy who drives in circles for a living to be an ally to you in any way shape or form that’s on you im afraid

[kandicon]

I do think Brian has an incredibly efficient cooling and temperature regulation system because that's a pretty obvious necessity, but every day that drumbot wakes up and does everything he can to overheat himself

[nando161mando]

When criminals run society

[irrepressible-domovoy]

I feel like employers should be punished for not giving you hours but not firing you

I know the reason is they don't want to have to pay you unemployment, but come on, man. Some of us have heads to keep a roof over

[gordonsicedcoffee]

And you, huh? What about you? What sort of shady shit have you been up to, hmm?

I'm a Senior V.P. for a real estate development company.

JULIE BENZ as BRIT STEVENSON SAW V (2008) dir. David Hackl

[faziiku]

duo so good that i physically cannot separate them (when one spawns in, they bring the other. help, theyre multiplying.)

[ninguitar]

Wait Ning why are we twins I have spiderman bedding and everything…

Ok Loser…. Freaking Nerds these days😭😭😭😭😹😹😹😹😹😹😂😂😂jaykay… i have a spiderman keychain hooked on my backpack .. 🙁and then i have another spiderman lego keychain hooked onto my carabiner… was lwk an impulsive buy from the lego store but idc 😊😊 i love spiderman like ud havw to pry him from my hands 🙏 if i ever die please bury me with all my spiderman shit. 😂😂 (i have a spiderman poster too hung up on my desk to motivate me and deter me away from wanting to kms while doing work.)

[zeroducks-2]

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Right, because antis doxxing people, sending death threats, destroying people's livelihoods and bringing them to self-harm ain't a thing, nuh huh sir surely a teenager getting bullied to the point of attempting suicide is not a real problem! It's just silly fandom things that give you brainrot! How cringe of people to worry about this! Surely the rise in puritanism, the anti-trans wave, the absolute state of dismay LGBT+ rights are in (and the even darker future that awaits) aren't directly linked to the internet version of fascist mace-bearers that make someone's life impossible just because they do something that they deem immoral!

We should all keep paying taxes and mind our own business and shake our heads at these stupid not deep things that have zero impact on real life, cause you know there is nothing more inconsequential than bullying, harassment and policing fandom spaces with puritanical scrutiny. Surely all of this doesn't matter and we need to get real problems am I right. Cause this doesn't affect tangible real life it's just cringe people being cringe on the internet about inconsequential things.

[neanmoins-que]

is there ever a moment in time where you would *consider* taking in a commission request?

Technically, my commissions are open at all times. Issue is, because of the only method available for me to receive payment, I cannot provide a decent service in certain cases nor I have control over the exact price (both sent/received amounts are dependent on unofficial currency value). That is beyond amateurish and I’d rather not force anyone into such unprofessional misadventure

[mekatrio]

im kinda dealing w vesperia the same way i did w ff8 where im just sooooooo mad at the flop ending but give it 3 months and ill probably sing high praise for this game but as of rn i need to seeth......

[eaglesnick]

“When the rich rob the poor its called business. When the poor fight back its called violence” - Mark Twain

Although I think winter fuel payments to pensioners should be means tested , I also believe the super wealthy in Britain should be made to  pay a little extra towards the “black hole" in the economy.

Reeves and Starmer’s argument for cutting winter fuel payments to all but the poorest pensioners is not that wealthier pensioners don’t need  tax-payer handouts, but they have to make this cut to help fill the £22bn deficit in public finances left by the previous Tory government.

If they believe what they say then there are other ways to raise the necessary taxes without penalising the poorest within our communities.

The Times Rich List informs us that the 50 wealthiest people in Britain are ALL multi billionaires. The combined wealth of these 50 people is estimated to be between £500 -£700 billion depending on whose figures you use.

Talking of the gross economic inequalities in the UK Sharon Graham of the Unite Union said:

What Unite propose is that rather than “pick pocket” 10 million pensioners of £300, Starmer and Reeves should introduce a Wealth Tax. If the government were to introduce a 1% tax on the 1% of wealthiest families in Britain, this would raise £25bn, more than enough to fill the so-called “black hole".

According to Unite this tax would affect:

“The top 1%, broadly those people with £4 million clear and no mortgages. Anything over that would be taxed at 1%. So if you had £6 million and no mortgage, just clear assets and money, then it would be 1% on your extra £2 million” (Sharon Graham, Mirror, 09/09/24)

I do not know how accurate Unites figures are but the wealthiest 1% of UK households are extremely rich indeed.

Approximately 685,500 households make up the richest 1% of British families.

"In the UK, the analysis found, the richest 1 per cent of people are now wealthier than 70 per cent of the population combined. The richest 685,500 people in Britain are worth a total of £2.8 trillion ($3.4 trillion), compared with 48 million people in the UK whose combined wealth totals £2.4 trillion.” (The National: 16/01/23)

 (Just in case you don’t know, a trillion is 1,000,000,000,000)

Clearly this group can afford to pay higher taxes. According to the Financial Times, (07/01/22)  the richest 1% of UK households had wealth that was 230 times higher than for the least wealthy.

Starmer and Reeves could levy a wealth tax on the richest 1% of UK families but will they? Taking money from the poor is by far the easiest option. With wealth comes influence and power and these families are not shy to in wielding that power and influence to protect their interests.

Before the election Labour said they had no plans for a wealth tax.

“Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has ruled out any version of a wealth tax on the richest in society should Labour win the next general election." BBC News: 27/08/23)

Despite the “unexpected shock" of finding a £22 billion black hole in the economy Labour insists it still has no intension of introducing a tax on wealth.

“Labour has no plans to adopt Unites wealth tax plan, says cabinet minister” (LBC: 25/09/24)

Economic politics as usual then!

Seriously, what is the point of a Labour government if it does not at least try to introduce policies that ensure a fairer distribution of wealth? Only the morally bankrupt would prefer to “pick pocket” the poor rather than tax the rich.

 Where is Robin Hood when you need him?

[9w1ft]

Don't you find the strict rules of society in Japan overwhelming for you and the kids?

not one bit

[nando161mando]

Pete is speechless about Airlines tried to stop Biden for scrapping junk fees

[rotzaprachim]

there are a lot of goyim esp from other Marginalised backgrounds that are taking the wrong lessons away from the fact that it turns out that a group of primarily socialist/communist people from an extremely oppressed cultural group with deep ties to an area are in fact more than capable of founding a regional settler colonial ethnostate in that area, a state that was capable of the mass dislocation and then intergenerational imprisonment of hundreds of thousands and then millions of people, and that while many non Jews feel morally pure and free of this ideology, the reality of the situation should terrify everyone

[nefretemerson]

having like. actually just watched A24's warfare I'm gonna say. that's not a pro-war movie. it's absolutely pro-military and pro-soldier tbh but it's definitely not coming down very sympathetic to the Iraq war in general. it doesn't make you think 'that's soo cool dude.' it mostly makes you want to throw up. it's not a movie I would recommend exactly. it's incredibly intense. it's incredibly gory. the execution is perfect. and it's more like a horror movie than anything. it makes u leave the theater and think 'ok but why the Fuck did any of that have to happen.' makes you leave feeling hollow inside.