NorthernGent
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ORIGINAL: ToGiveDivine
Gent,
You really think you are Robin Hood don't you?
Why is it always, "Take other people's money to spend on what ' I ' want"?
And the problem with this is? Do you not have an opinion? Do you not have a view on where you think tax-payers money should be spent? When you hand over your tax are you not interested where it goes? Everybody on this board has posted a view on where they'd like to see tax spent so what exactly is your problem with the concept of me having an opinion?
You could be jailed under your point #4 - you are always inciting tension.
Have you EVER had an original thought or are you content with reguritating someone else's crap?!?!?!
What are you talking about? You don't know me and you're there with your EVER talk.
BTW, when the government raises taxes on corporations, they are actually raising them on the people because corporations don't "eat" those costs, they just pass them on to the consumer.
No they don't. The simple laws of supply and demand control prices. By your logic, corporations/businesses would never go bankrupt because they would pass on all costs to consumers who would simply eat these costs. The one weapon that corporations/businesses have is to take their business elsewhere. If businesses pushed CT costs back to the consumer they would be undercut by foreign competitors who would enter a ready made profitable market at the same prices that had previously earned huge profits - we have free trade here.
Also, if you bother to read what is being said, you'll find I specifically mentioned Murdoch's media empire who has paid no net CT in this country for 10 years even though his empire made £1.4 billion profit. If opposing this is what you call "Robin Hood" then you're not as smart as you seem to think you are.
So, you can act all high and mighty that you are "sticking it to Big Business", but you are sticking it to the poor, the elderly on fixed incomes, the middle class, etc.
See above
Sometimes it's wise to think past the first step to see where the next few steps will take you.
Ditto
What you are blathering about is having the government regulate morality - is THAT what you really want, because why should they stop at over priced haircuts, what if they decide that smacking another person, even if they are begging you to do it, is not something they should permit - once the genie is out of the bottle, it's damn hard to get it back in. THINK!!! (If thinking hurts, find someone smart to think for you)
You think you're smart enough to give someone a going over on a message board but the problem is, based on the above paragraph, you are not. We live in a country that values style over substance, marketing over social welfare. If you disagree then fine but don't give me the big capitals and exclamation marks like a prozac-induced drama student. Argue your point rationally.
I do agree with you on one point - I think spending $100 on a simple haircut in a fancy-schmancy hair salon to pump up one's ego is ridiculous; but (to find the silver lining), the government does get more tax revenue on a $100 haircut than a $20 one.
One last thing, from your language you seem to think you're a cyber-warrior hard-man behind your computer screen. In real life, I'll bet you a pound to a penny you wouldn't say boo to a goose because if you did, talking like that, I wouldn't fancy your chances of staying on your feet very long. Be civil, it costs nothing.
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