Rishi Sunak

metalblue said:
Per my reply to @BrianW

In terms of why do dividends have different tax brackets to wages? Not sure when the tax law was introduced on this or by who - it’s been around for decades in one form or another. It is desgined to encourage people to invest in companies - it’s one way a company generates cash to invest in new factories or projects to employ more people as an example of why this is a good thing for all of us. The alternative is to dissuade people from holding shares, share prices will take a hit. It’s a sensible tax and it’s only marginally under salary tax rates..
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The idea that shares were bought by ordinary people to fund new business probably went out with the Railway Mania in the 1840s. And you'd expect lawmakers with capital to invest to come up with a tax system that dealt more gently with dividends than workers' wages. Likewise the landowning lawmakers (replacing rates with poll tax then council tax with an artificial maximum rate).
 
Brewster's millions said:
He’s paid half a million in taxes.

I would think that pays for quite a few nurses. Surely even you can work that one out.
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news.sky.com

One in five NHS jobs now filled by non-UK nationals

A third of doctors and three in 10 nurses working in the health service have come from abroad - the highest proportion since records began, the analysis of NHS Digital data reveals.
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20% of nhs staff are not uk nationals. Send the buggers back
 
BrianW said:
We could train up our own people.

Except that costs money. A lot of money. Much cheaper to poach them from other countries.
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To train up our own there would have to be a strategy and workforce plan. I’m sure the Tories have said that they have one but not sure if it’s been notified to anybody to implement. You know, the actual delivery piece.
 
That went well. I suppose if you are going to do a live on Neil Olivers officially Ofcom sanctioned Covid denial channel you have to expect the unexpected


 
bluethrunthru said:
That went well. I suppose if you are going to do a live on Neil Olivers officially Ofcom sanctioned Covid denial channel you have to expect the unexpected


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He's already been on the channel. I'd be surprised if they didn't know who he was and what he was going to say.

 
Brewster's millions said:
The highest earners would still be helping others - many, many people - even if it was a flat rate of tax. Sunak’s half a million tax bill proves that.

It seems to me that people who expect only ‘the rich’ to pay higher taxes are the ones who are refusing to face the new fiscal reality and the need for everybody to make a larger contribution
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The new fiscal reality is also increased wealth disparity though.

They should at the very least make capital gains taxable at the same rate as income.
 
Rishi Sunak: ‘The UK economy has turned a corner’.

Financial experts: ‘The UK creeps closer to a technical recession’.

Understanding that the mood of the country is at rock bottom, does the PM and his government not see what is right in front of them?
 
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