Hopium

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[Hopium @blueutopiaa]

#JavierMilei Lets go!

[Hopium @blueutopiaa]

@littlealembic @dickiebaird @PolitlcsUK I’ve got a Javier Milei poster pinned as my main tweet.. it literally says ‘dismantle the state’ ofc not literally but the sentiment is sound. No, I don’t want wealth creators to be heavily taxed.

Less sucking from the over-milked nipples of the state and more graft is needed

[Hopium @blueutopiaa]

@LivDarlingFinan @veritasPLANET @steviemac2010 @PolitlcsUK Bingo

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@littlealembic @dickiebaird @PolitlcsUK Not all taxes are created equally. If we have to have them to perform any chosen government function they should be at least harmful as possible on wealth creators.

Yes less intervention the better. Unless you want to abolish councils and centralise power in Whitehall?

[Laurie Macfarlane @L__Macfarlane]

Replacing council tax is long overdue. The economics are a no brainer, but the politics are much harder.

A reform that creates huge winners and losers overnight won’t survive. The real challenge isn’t designing a better tax - it’s designing a transition people can live with.

[Hopium @blueutopiaa]

@Atlastours67 @KEdge23 Why don’t you go and use AI to look up how it’s done in the states… could be a good learning experience for you. And doing it every 5 years is fine to smooth out volatile housing market fluctuations

[Hopium @blueutopiaa]

@Atlastours67 @KEdge23 They can value it periodically numnuts. And this is done fairly cheaply in the US by partly automated systems and works well. Go do some research. Why does the right always have to be filled with crackpots. Why can’t we get people with working brains

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@littlealembic @dickiebaird @PolitlcsUK It’s not left wing economics. If you want councils to do anything they need funding from locals. Should that be based on a 1991 property valuation paid annually or their current property valuation paid annually…

Nothing left wing about scrapping stamp duty taxes…

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@littlealembic @dickiebaird @PolitlcsUK I’m ashamed that you are likely a fellow Reform or Restore voter and are as pig-headed as you are.

I bet you’re a flat earther as well huh?

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@ArthurSwindel @PolitlcsUK @andyb Should have been. Hopefully is now. Glad they are :) Hope you are too even if you resent the premature announcements

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@ArthurSwindel @PolitlcsUK @andyb They havn’t announced it at all. It is being considered… im sure if they’re serious they’ll be working out the kinks now

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@littlealembic @dickiebaird @PolitlcsUK You don’t ‘pay tax on your house once’. You pay stamp duty on the transaction. Local services still need funding every year. The question is whether it’s better to tax moving or owning

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@Jet2rp9 @3adawiiiii @veritasPLANET @steviemac2010 @PolitlcsUK I’m aware of that. But that’s no reason not to implement a clearly superior system that is pro free markets , pro homeownership and shifts away from destructive transaction taxes

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@ArthurSwindel @PolitlcsUK @andyb I know it’s fundamental. You have given the most comprehensive and valid pushback so far. But they are all design questions that can and do have answers and all come with tradeoffs and winners and losers.

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@ArthurSwindel @PolitlcsUK @andyb These are all good questions that would need to be ironed out. These policies can’t be whipped up in a microwave ofc. But none of them mean the policy direction is bad. Just that the way it’s implemented will need to be decided upon carefully

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@DeniseC99766052 @veritasPLANET @steviemac2010 @PolitlcsUK 1/3 pensioners are millionaires in terms of assets. Pay per mile is good. You should pay more if you use the road more. Not based on net zero nonsense.

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@Jet2rp9 @3adawiiiii @veritasPLANET @steviemac2010 @PolitlcsUK Sure. That’s fine by me. Cut the top rate from 45% to 40% or 35% even. This is about correcting a long overdue distortion of the housing market and tax bandings

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@littlealembic @dickiebaird @PolitlcsUK Go and read some woo woo tarot cards seems like you understand that nonsense better than you do basic economic theory.

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@ArthurSwindel @PolitlcsUK @andyb Even if I grant you this. With no stamp duty….People who can’t or don’t want to pay the rate can move to a less valuable home and pay far less, possibly less than they did under the current system

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@littlealembic @dickiebaird @PolitlcsUK You have no idea what that term means Penelope. Might mean granny living alone in a 3 bed might consider selling up downsizing to a one bed and let a family move in there who are willing to pay to live in that home.

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@DeniseC99766052 @veritasPLANET @steviemac2010 @PolitlcsUK You can you can just choose to cut back on a holiday or two, most people this will impact are not living paycheck to paycheck …