The worst things human beings do.

[Deleted member 77198]

Anybody got any pics of what a chip barm looks like. I understand the 'chip' bit but I'm fucked with the 'barm' bit. On the other hand, is it anything to do with Koolhand Khaldoon's predilection for a chip muffin?

Chip barm

Chip muffin

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Chip barm

Chip muffin

That chip barm looks mildly edible but I don't really fancy that bun!

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Chip muffin

For the mental well-being of North Manc City fans I've just edited this post.

 

[RadcliffeRick]

I think your start position gives you a philosophical difficulty.
You have mentioned 'need' as dividing line and here you accept that entrepreneurs are essential and should be rewarded for risk taking but should, in effect, stop when their wealth exceeds a certain level. That's a bit like saying Lewis Hamilton should drive more slowly to avoid unfairness.
I think that, in a capitalist system, you are bound to have super rich people and we should tackle it thru taxation, rather than castigating them for being unethical. Yes, I know they will duck and dodge and practice tax arbitrage, but it should not be beyond the wit of man to extract some more from them.
How about an annual audit and a tax on world wide wealth? After all, if I have £500bn assets, I wont miss 1% of that.

When the people with the money are manipulating the taxation laws and having them written in such a way that it allows them to reduce their tax bill to a ridiculously small amount what hope is there of sharing their wealth through taxes?

 

[KS55]

When the people with the money are manipulating the taxation laws and having them written in such a way that it allows them to reduce their tax bill to a ridiculously small amount what hope is there of sharing their wealth through taxes?

Political will.

 

[Fame Monster]

For me, that's not a chip barm or muffin: it's a chip butty.

Chip barm

 

[squirtyflower]

Chip barm

Chip muffin

Only Americans think the bottom picture is a muffin, you heathen

 

[idahoblues]

That chip barm looks mildly edible but I don't really fancy that bun!

It does look a little Wonderbreadish

 

[Bill Walker]

When the people with the money are manipulating the taxation laws and having them written in such a way that it allows them to reduce their tax bill to a ridiculously small amount what hope is there of sharing their wealth through taxes?

Absolutely none.
Billionaires run government policy. Increased taxation will never work it's been tried in the past and failed miserably.

Jeff Bezos, the owner of Amazon, for example. His current net worth is $120 billion. Although Bezos’ base salary is a modest $81,840.

It was also reported recently that Trump paid less personal tax the average nurse last year.

 

[Bill Walker]

I think your start position gives you a philosophical difficulty.
You have mentioned 'need' as dividing line and here you accept that entrepreneurs are essential and should be rewarded for risk taking but should, in effect, stop when their wealth exceeds a certain level. That's a bit like saying Lewis Hamilton should drive more slowly to avoid unfairness.
I think that, in a capitalist system, you are bound to have super rich people and we should tackle it thru taxation, rather than castigating them for being unethical. Yes, I know they will duck and dodge and practice tax arbitrage, but it should not be beyond the wit of man to extract some more from them.
How about an annual audit and a tax on world wide wealth? After all, if I have £500bn assets, I wont miss 1% of that.

We all know that this has been tried and failed, billionaires pay less tax than school teachers in many cases.
Governments such as the UK conservative government are not going to slug them heavily when billionaires actually finance the government and help it to win power.
In other words governments are 'bought' by billionaires.
Boris Johnson & company are in power because of billionaire's supporting their coffers and financing them completely.
There is absolutely no way Boris is going to bite the hand that feeds him and his party.

The latest figures from the Electoral Commission reveal that three out of the four largest individual donations to the Tory party came from British billionaires.