France in turmoil (again)

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nickfrog

18,938 posts

204 months

SpeckledJim said:
"Bof. Je want mon money. Mon children must le payer. Peppa le cochon, come ici, it is temps to meet votre maker"


(sorry again, Miles)
rofl

It's a good summary, sadly.

Gecko1978

8,098 posts

144 months

CrgT16 said:
The government will never allow you to flourish up a certain point. You earn more you pay more so you are not incentivised to work more and become under a certain threshold. There is a convergence of income up to a point where you can break that limit and then become wealthy paying in effect less tax than the lesser man.

Sounds conspiracy theory but look carefully how the tax system works and the really wealthy pay less tax proportionally than everyone else and they will lobby to keep it that way.
100% this Rishi legally paid 22% tax. I similar income to Starmer pay closer to 50%

Earthdweller

Original Poster:

11,896 posts

113 months

King Charles’ state visit to France next week is …. Postponed


Gecko1978

8,098 posts

144 months

Earthdweller said:
King Charles’ state visit to France next week is …. Postponed
Cos it appears most of France is on fire....why are we so meek in the UK

SpeckledJim

30,439 posts

240 months

Gecko1978 said:
Earthdweller said:
King Charles’ state visit to France next week is …. Postponed
Cos it appears most of France is on fire....why are we so meek in the UK
Meek is a reasonable word. You could also go with 'not such a bunch of screamy-abdabs, stampy-foot, head-in-the-sand, mard-arses'

They can't afford to do it the way they do it. After the fires have died down and we've all tidied-up, that'll still be the case.

Whoever follows Macron can thank him for being the one to rip the plaster off.

valiant

8,532 posts

147 months

Gecko1978 said:
Earthdweller said:
King Charles’ state visit to France next week is …. Postponed
Cos it appears most of France is on fire....why are we so meek in the UK
Oi! I signed a .gov petition and made a sarky comment on the MailOnline.

That’ll learn them…

loafer123

14,808 posts

202 months

Gecko1978 said:
CrgT16 said:
The government will never allow you to flourish up a certain point. You earn more you pay more so you are not incentivised to work more and become under a certain threshold. There is a convergence of income up to a point where you can break that limit and then become wealthy paying in effect less tax than the lesser man.

Sounds conspiracy theory but look carefully how the tax system works and the really wealthy pay less tax proportionally than everyone else and they will lobby to keep it that way.
100% this Rishi legally paid 22% tax. I similar income to Starmer pay closer to 50%
Didn’t he legally pay 22% tax in the U.K. because he was also paying tax in the US, and the double tax treaty means you don’t pay twice?