Millions of parents limit their family to one or two children because they know they can’t afford any more.
Lifting the two-child benefit cap only helps parents on benefits,
Not those parents who take responsibility and work hard to provide for their kids.
A person on £150k is simply not rich.
They have a shot at getting rich if they can keep it going for 20 years and save maybe £50k a year (not easy in the sorts of places where you can earn £150k a year).
At the end of that 20 year period they maybe have £1.5m with good investment decisions.
Thats still not verg rich tbh. A nice but not very large house by the coast and a pension that pays maybe £50k p/a.
No flash cars or second homes. Not (m)any £10k holidays.
They seem rich because so many people in the UK now are relatively poor and propped up by the state.
So you’re telling me that:
- Income Tax
- National Insurance Contributions
- Corporation Tax
- Capital Gains Tax
- Council Tax
- Value Added Tax
- Excise Duty
- Fuel Duty
- Stamp Duty Land Tax
- Air Passenger Duty
- Insurance Premium Tax
- Green Taxes (Includes levies on energy bills or vehicle emissions, like road tax).
- Gambling Taxes
- Plastic Bag Charges
- Carbon Emissions Levy (embedded in energy costs for businesses and indirectly passed to consumers)
- Landfill Tax (paid by waste management companies but often reflected in local authority charges)
- Television Licence Fee
- Congestion Charges
- Soft Drinks Industry Levy
Isn’t enough to fund public schools, public services, roads, etc? They also have to apply a death tax and charge your kids on money you’ve already paid tax on? 🤡🌍
There are a lot of very stupid things being said on the family farming tax, by people who are proving themselves to be entirely ignorant of British agriculture.
The farm may be worth millions, but it's worth NOTHING until it's sold. So when the farm is passed down, and this huge tax bill arrives - what is the family supposed to do? They don't have hundreds of thousands of pounds sitting in the bank...
Farming is not a lucrative career. It does not make much money. The land is valuable, but the returns are not.
Running a farm is bloody expensive - profits are minuscule in comparison to the value of the actual farm.
This is really not a complicated principle, yet I see idiots parroting utter nonsense.
Labour's farming tax will force thousands of farming families to sell the farm to pay the inheritance tax bill. Farms that have been in those families for generations - if it were not for this tax, they would never dream of selling.
It's really that simple, and it will change British farming forever.
This is a tax drawn up by people who have NO understanding of agriculture. There are three farming MPs in Parliament, I am one of them...
Trust me when I say this - Labour does NOT understanding farming. It would be laughable if they were not running the damn country.
I wouldn't be surprised if a majority of Labour MPs believe that potatoes grow on trees. These are urban people who think that a farm is a family day out, an opportunity to feed the sheep and ride the tractor.
Clueless. On farming, and so much else.
I will be standing alongside thousands of other British farmers tomorrow. We must make our voices heard.
Reeves must reverse her cruel assault on British family farms. Either she does it now, or we'll do it in 2029.
35 new victims of Andrew & Tristan Tate. THIRTY FIVE. Including minors. That's 50 women and children, all victims of sexual abuse by these men. Yet Tate remains REVERED by hundreds of thousands of young boys and men. Do not tell me misogyny isn't a HUGE danger to women and girls.
Italy raided factories & found that Armani and Dior bags are made by illegal Chinese workers in Italy who sleep in the workshop and make €2-3/hr. Both companies have been placed under Italian court administration.
Dior paid a supplier $57 to assemble* a handbag that sells for $2,780
Armani bags that were sold to consumers for €1,800 cost €93* to make.
(These don’t include raw materials costs)
People often wrongly conflate higher prices for higher ethical standards.
Dubai airport looks like an apocalyptic movie. Videos of the flooding are insane.
I’ve seen some blaming climate change when the cause is actually from the use of weather modification.
Cloud seeding where chemicals are sprayed in clouds to create rain caused this. We recently banned this practice in my home state of Tennessee.
Anytime you modify the weather you open yourself up to unintended consequences.
NEW: Australian mother throws her baby into the arms of a man as her last act on Earth after a maniac goes on a stabbing spree in an Australian mall.
Hero.
38-year-old Ash Good died on Saturday after throwing her baby into a bystander's arms as she bled to death.
Her baby, 9-month-old Harriet, was stabbed in the stomach and was rushed to the hospital thanks to Good's quick thinking.
"The mom got stabbed, and the mom came over with the baby and threw it at me, and I was holding the baby."
"I think the baby's fine. The mother, unfortunately, me and another lady, which were compressing, she started to have a lot of blood coming out of her mouth."
Six victims died in the stabbing spree at Sydney's Westfield Bondi Junction Shopping Center.
The baby is currently in the hospital in serious condition.
@AvantiWestCoast I was due to be on the 19;03 train to Tamworth from Euston, will it be in place today for me to get the 18:46 train?
Otherwise the next scheduled avanti is 20:33 meaning I won’t get home until nearly 10pm