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Bozita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-03-09 08:56 PM Original message |
(UK) Public wants taxes that hurt the rich - Credit crunch provokes backlash against bankers |
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BelgianMadCow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-03-09 09:06 PM Response to Original message |
1. I'll bring the boiling oil |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-03-09 09:07 PM Response to Original message |
2. Reverse Thatcherism.... |
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MannyGoldstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-03-09 09:15 PM Response to Original message |
3. Top Tax Bracket Under Eisenhower: 91% |
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pattmarty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-03-09 09:19 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. The big problem with what you stated (which is the truth) is....... |
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MannyGoldstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-03-09 11:05 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. I'm Not Sure That Most People Can Handle The Truth |
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tridim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-03-09 09:21 PM Response to Original message |
5. So do we. |
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harmonicon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-03-09 10:32 PM Response to Original message |
6. maybe Brown can save his ass after all |
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T_i_B (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-04-09 07:58 AM Response to Reply #6 |
9. The best starting place IMHO... |
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Joe Chi Minh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-04-09 04:56 PM Response to Reply #9 |
14. He needs to recentralise government, most notably taxation, abolishing |
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OffWithTheirHeads (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-03-09 10:47 PM Response to Original message |
7. Pitchforks! Get your red hot pitchforks here! |
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Buns_of_Fire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-04-09 08:42 AM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Or maybe just PLAIN forks. And knives. |
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bread_and_roses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-04-09 09:41 AM Response to Original message |
11. Notice the biased language in this article, too |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-04-09 04:18 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Well spotted - here's the actual news release from the Fabian Society |
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emad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-04-09 04:22 PM Response to Original message |
13. Just remember the exodus of the Non-Doms when Brown threatened |
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Joe Chi Minh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-04-09 05:04 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Rubbish he could forbid removal of substantial amounts of money from the country, before |
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emad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-05-09 09:54 AM Response to Reply #15 |
18. "forbid removal of substantial amounts of money"? |
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Joe Chi Minh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-04-09 05:09 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. I don't believe I have ever read anything so benighted and regressive here since |
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emad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-05-09 09:42 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. This socialist polemic is fundamentally bankrupt. |
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LeftishBrit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-05-09 06:45 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. The Russian economic success story? |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-06-09 01:05 AM Response to Reply #17 |
20. The Russian economic success story? |
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Nihil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-06-09 04:27 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. I seem to recall a reference to that in "Shock Doctrine" ... |
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emad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-06-09 09:44 AM Response to Reply #21 |
22. Last year BBC Newsnight ran a story about how Russia's black economy |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-06-09 10:04 AM Response to Reply #22 |
23. A multi-tiered tax system isn't that complicated |
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emad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-06-09 03:48 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. Yes. But the UK tax system has been made deliberately fiendishly complex |
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Albus (290 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-07-09 01:09 AM Response to Reply #24 |
25. The tax system has to be fiendishly complex |
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