Re: Don't you just love Word-smiths!
I noticed in another thread that you would like to see a tax put on children being born Erinaceous.Re: Don't you just love Word-smiths!
Good questions, here's my thinking.Re: Don't you just love Word-smiths!
Ah but! Ah but! Ah but! - the children born today are future tax-payers and will provide the pensions, social security for their elders in due course. I think they are a wothwhile investment for many reasons and it is wrong to think of the future generation as a liability. Although I believe adjustments need to be made about how much is paid in tax and benefits, if not enough children are born to become tax payers - what then?Re: Don't you just love Word-smiths!
The “future tax payer” argument doesn't stack, here's why.Re: Don't you just love Word-smiths!
I also don't think we need to be increasing our population Erinaceous and that was not what I was meaning at all. If there was a tax on more than two children, then I really don't think it would attract as much revenue as inheritance (or death) duties currently do. You can't get "blood out of a stone" and I think education and the hope of an independent future has to be the way to go. Yes there are folks who have more children who they can afford - but these people are not likely to pay much tax or be able to afford a tax on their children. So what would you recommend - compulsory sterilisation or strangling at birth.Re: Don't you just love Word-smiths!
I must say Rena that you are the only person that I have ever known to agree with inheritance tax. I'm afraid I'm with Erinaceous on that point, the money has already been taxed several times so the government can get their thieving hands off it, it will be spent by the inheritor soon enough which will then both provide a boost to the economy and attract VAT anyway.Re: Don't you just love Word-smiths!
Put very basically, the 'haves' want to keep what they have without taxation, while allowing the 'have nots' to pay the taxes that the 'haves' should have paid. I seem to recall that we've been here before when a Certain King John was on the throne and look what happened to HIM!!!Re: Don't you just love Word-smiths!
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