asperity Posted February 3, 2010 Report Share Posted February 3, 2010 You're making a lot of presumptions about me there. However you are starting to talk a bit of sense although you're still ignoring the fact that if you introduce these high tax rates you won't gain the increase in revenue that you would expect on paper. this has been demonstrated many times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted February 3, 2010 Report Share Posted February 3, 2010 "many times", because the legislators can't produce laws without loop-holes and have failed to incentivise the taxmen to prioritise the biggest fish first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted February 4, 2010 Report Share Posted February 4, 2010 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/7148284/Diageo-rebuffs-Swiss-offer-to-exempt-top-200-executives-from-income-tax.html There's plenty of competition in the outside world Obs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted February 4, 2010 Report Share Posted February 4, 2010 simply market forces operating on a global basis - which merely adds to global inequalities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted February 4, 2010 Report Share Posted February 4, 2010 Exactly. And if you're competing in a global market place you have to set the price of your product (tax in this case) at a competitive level. Set it too high and businesses will go somewhere cheaper and far from increasing your revenue, you will find it falling. It's no good moaning that it's unfair because that's life - unfair. When you get a bit older you may come to relise this sad fact Obs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Kennedy Posted February 4, 2010 Report Share Posted February 4, 2010 It's no good moaning that it's unfair because that's life - unfair. .........And then you die. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter T Posted February 4, 2010 Report Share Posted February 4, 2010 And that is the only guarantee that you have in life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LymmParent Posted February 4, 2010 Report Share Posted February 4, 2010 And that is the only guarantee that you have in life. Which? Death or taxation? Seems to me that both can berelied upon at the moment..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter T Posted February 4, 2010 Report Share Posted February 4, 2010 I was thinking death, but you are correct. (just) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LymmParent Posted February 4, 2010 Report Share Posted February 4, 2010 I was thinking death, but you are correct. (just) Only just correct? That like being a smidgeon dead or a tad preggers, is it Peter? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted February 4, 2010 Report Share Posted February 4, 2010 Whats all this talk of dead pidgeons? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LymmParent Posted February 4, 2010 Report Share Posted February 4, 2010 Whats all this talk of dead pidgeons? Calm down - your lot are fine until we start shooting albatrosses! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 Asp: if "competition" was the only criteria for national differentials within a global society - our workforce would be paid less than the average Chinaman or Indian - I still retain the (perhaps old fashioned) belief, that a Sovereign State's first duty is to defend it's existence and protect it's sovereign integrity - an idea that the Greeks are wrestling with at the moment! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 Take more water with it Obs. You're rambling! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 don't drink, must be the grass! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 Must be Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LymmParent Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 Take more water with it Obs. You're rambling! I'm glad you said that. It made no sense to me either - I was beginning to think I'd been on here too long!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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