On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:48:32 +0100
Dave Plowman wrote:
In article ,
JNugent wrote:
On 09/10/2012 16:04, Dave Plowman wrote:
In article ,
wrote:
Anyway , there's no chance of this hairbrained bill making it through.
If it does the tories are finished for a generation as they'll have
****ed their own supporters royally.

Which they did with the poll tax. Saying it would be fair for everyone,
which translates into their very rich pals paying less in proportion.

"In proportion" to what?

Are you that thick? The poll tax was a fixed sum paid by everyone.
Replaced a tax based on property value. The result being those in an
expensive property paid the same as those in a slum.

The only people who had an issue with it - as witnessed by the types who
rioted - were the scrounging crusties and people who lived in homes where a
number of (usually immigrant) families all piled into the same house to avoid
paying the rates. For most people it wouldn't have made much difference in
what they paid.

Would you charge "da man" more for a TV licence?

The TV licence isn't a tax. You don't have to have a TV - unlike a roof
over your head.

You have to buy food though. Perhaps the rich should pay more at Tesco
to subsidise all your poor downtrodden comrades on da street init?

Face it - you have an issue with anyone who makes a decent living. You can't
stand the fact that some people have more money than you but you dress it up as
some sort undergraduate level right-on social conscience.

B2003