Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => Politics & Current Affairs => Topic started by: Aruntraveller on October 25, 2021, 09:50:14 AM
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How is this happening? Millionaires showing more awareness of gross inequality in our society than our government is:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/oct/25/millionaires-petition-rishi-sunak-to-introduce-wealth-tax?
On second thoughts, the government is quite aware of the inequality. Just indisposed to do anything about it.
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It's only 30 of them. There are a lot more millionaires in the country than you might think. For example, if you add up all of my assets: property, pension, ISA, I just about creep over the line.
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Being a single millionaire is no big deal nowadays. In London, many fairly ordinary houses cost over a million.
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It's only 30 of them. There are a lot more millionaires in the country than you might think. For example, if you add up all of my assets: property, pension, ISA, I just about creep over the line.
Indeed so. But they are talking about the ones with above 3.6 million - 1% of the population.
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Poor people don't buy things.
They create a black economy.
Economically trickle down eventually makes no sense.
I think the last time british society came to this realisation was early to mid nineties. The tories were caught lagging then.
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It's only 30 of them. There are a lot more millionaires in the country than you might think. For example, if you add up all of my assets: property, pension, ISA, I just about creep over the line.
I'm available for dinner and a show.
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I'm available for dinner and a show.
Unfortunately, I'm only a millionaire on paper. I can't sell my house because I need to live in it. Dinner and a show will have to wait.
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Indeed so. But they are talking about the ones with above 3.6 million - 1% of the population.
It wasn't my point that millionaires shouldn't pay more tax. I was just saying that it is only a tiny minority of them arguing that they should.