However, the percentage they earn is actually far greater and imagine how much tax revenue we would have if they were taxed at the same rates as in the 1970s.
On bullshit projects, also increased arms and funneling of money from public sector to inflated private sector. We spend more funding privatised railways than when they were nationalised. Nearly every time you have an NHS appointment the money goes to a private clinic. Tax revenue has increased...
Are you familiar with maths?
Britain creates more wealth now. Tax is lower - top rate under Thatcher was 90%
We are now the money laundering and tax haven capital of the world.
The gap between rich and poor is at its greatest, yet was at its narrowest in the early 1970s, during my lifetime. The...
It's all bullshit, our parents and grandparents grew up when the rich paid tax and there was money for things. The wealth society creates should see retirement coming down. However, a system based on the needs of thieves sees greater wealth in fewer hands, less funding for social needs and a...
What a 2nd 11 though:
Steele
Veltman, Webster, Igor, Lampty
Baleba, Lallana
March, Goodnight, Enciso
Ferguson
Fati, Barco, Moder, Milner and the kids on the bench.
What a time to be an Albion fan.
Salt beef is not corned beef (even though corned beef means salt beef). Salt beef is too good for Spurs. If you want a crappy kosher sandwich then it would be chopped liver.
I met an English couple whilst travelling through Bolivia, that had survived a crash in West Africa. They claimed they were packed on the back of an open truck, dozens standing, when speeding along, miles from anywhere, it hit something and rolled over many times. As they struggled to their feet...
55 and when I started Teaching 21 years ago, I would have reached retirement age. Gove shoved the horizon another 10 years away. So it'll be 2034 before I start posting as frequently as some of the foggies on here.
When that Bloom sells to some Arab Sheikh, who wants to change the colour of our kit and treble ticket prices, then rename the club and ban homosexuals from games, then make the women's team wear burkas and replace piglets pies with Halal sheep's heads - I shall turn, I won't stand for that I'm...
Reminds me of the Goldstone days, when someone thought we were shouting Seig heil whilst pointing our right arms forward. An investigation was initiated, only to discover the ground wasn't full of Nazis - we were shouting Seagulls. All they had to do was ask.
Blah, blah, blah Man Utd leading the chase, blah, blah, blah Barcelona needing a new manager, blah, blah Man Utd need a new manager, blah, blah, Liverpool need a new manager, blah, blah Arsenal looking for a new manager in the summer, blah, blah Ferguson ............