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98’
Declan-Junior Sands👣💚
Dalton Sands 👣 💚

✨Hard Work Beats Talent When Talent Doesn’t Work Hard 🌍 ✨

[declansands @DeclanSands]

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[Against The Ropes @ATRboxinguk]

With success comes Jealousy - Floyd Mayweather Jr

[Celtic Football Club @CelticFC]

CHAMPIONS AGAIN!

🏆 Celtic are crowned Champions of Scotland for the FIFTH season in a row!

Huge congratulations to Martin O’Neill and the Bhoys

#Champion5 | #CelticFC🍀🏆

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Tax. We’ve all become so used to it, we forget how much we’re actually paying. It is relentless, even beyond death. And for what? If we had a semblance of functioning public services, I could maybe stomach it. But we don’t, so what are we actually paying all of this money for?

We are subject to Scandinavian levels of tax for third-world levels of competence - what a toilet deal.

Earn a salary. Income tax, a fifth gone before we’ve even started. National insurance, more on top of that. What for? A ‘world-class’ health service? The NHS? Ha. Good luck.

Even getting to work costs - taxes on buying a car, running a car, insuring a car. Vast amount of road tax. Is that being well spent? Unless you want potholes you can paddle in, the answer is no. A road network built for half the amount of cars. How’s that going? It takes twice as long to get anywhere. Fuel duty and tax on insurance - whack that on top too. Congestion charges, tolls, fines and more. It goes on and on and on.

Forget getting the train, that’ll cost twice as much and never runs on time - a season ticket into London costs thousands. Unaffordable. Yet the trains so often run empty? Maybe that system isn’t working…

VAT on anything that moves - getting taxed to buy products/services, from already taxed money.

Tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax. Then more tax.

Did you go to university? Your ‘loan’ isn’t loan, it’s a tax. Interest is so sharp, you’re just paying that off each month. Hundreds gone, to pay for a sociology degree a decade ago. Ouch. Why are we saddling our youngsters with so much debt, with so much interest on top of that? Madness.

Manage to put a few quid away to save? That gets taxed too - ISAs will be under attack in the budget. Profit made on successful investments, what happens? You guessed it. Tax.

Somehow you’ve scrabbled a deposit together for a property. Well done.

Paying half a million quid for a semi-detached? Not cheap. Stamp duty means you get slapped for thousands. Obviously first time buyer exemptions mean less and less as house prices soar.

You’re in the house. Great news. Or so you thought. Council tax. Going up seemingly by 5% every year. Thousands of pounds a year. For what? To collect the bins? Really? Don’t forget the extra costs to have your garden waste removed. Brilliant.

More insurance taxes, and of course VAT on any improvements you want to make. Bills soaring, with tax slapped onto every corner of it - green levies and the rest.

How depressing. Time for a pint.

Alcohol duty. Because of course. Why wouldn’t they throw extra tax on it? I’m not a smoker, but the same applies. Even holidays. Air passenger duty to put a few extra quid onto the price of a trip away. Just for good measure.

You’re limping on through. Maybe you decide that starting your own business is the way to go?

You get it up and running, starting to make a reasonable profit. Take a small salary - to pay for such luxuries as food and heating. As we know, that gets taxed.

Alongside the costs. National Insurance. Business rates. Fees and licences. It is endless.

What’s left after all that? A profit? Surely good news?

Bang. Corporation tax. A big slice gone. After that, we can enjoy a handsome profit. Right?

Nope. Dividend tax. With its brutal thresholds. What slivers you do take get taxed all over again when you want to actually buy something. Obviously.

And the final kick in teeth.

Inheritance tax.

After everything, somehow, you’ve managed to put a reasonable amount of money away. After all that tax, you’ve succeeded in building a financial legacy to pass to your children - your business, and your own savings.

Money you were taxed on the day you earned it, taxed when you saved it, taxed when you invested it, taxed to build your business. It gets taxed one final time. On both your personal savings, and also the value of your company.

Even after death, it continues.

What are we paying all this money for?

Are our schools world-class? Borders secure? Police visible? NHS efficient? Economy thriving? Roads operational?

No. No. No. No. No. No. NOTHING WORKS.

Britain has the highest tax burden in most of our lifetimes, yet the worst services many of us have ever seen. If everything worked perfectly, there could maybe be an argument for such suffocating levels of tax. But it doesn’t, and hasn’t for decades, so there isn’t.

When the taxpayers fail to fund this state monster of inefficiency and unaccountability, what do they do?

QE. Print money. Creating inflation, devaluing our earnings and our savings. Yet one more tax.

The people creating all of this, implementing all of this? £100k plus on the public sector, living in London. Comfortable salary, great pension, no job risk. Clueless about the real world.

Maybe, just maybe, the current approach isn’t working.

We need to urgently cut tax. Shrink government. Reward hard work.

You just can’t tax a nation into prosperity. It never has worked, and it never will work.

LEAVE OUR MONEY ALONE.

[Jen k 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Jenny_1884]

I paid into National Insurance all my working life in order to receive a pension which I was told I would receive at the age of 60yrs.

This was changed to 67yrs as we were told they couldn’t afford it any longer.

What really annoys me though is that they have managed to find the money for 100,000s of people to live free in Hotels all expenses paid & others claiming benefits when these people have not paid a penny into this country.

This is what is not right or fair.

Why should we be paying anything when others are getting everything for free

This country is a joke as they should be looking after the people that pay their way & always have.

[Anthony Fowler @afowler06]

Martin Bakole and Billy Nelson back at the hotel tonight 💰 😂

[Crazy Clips @crazyclips_]

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[Top Rank Boxing @trboxing]

Marvelous Marvin Hagler was one of a kind 🐐

[declansands @DeclanSands]

Scumbags

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: MPs have voted 348 to 228 to cut winter fuel payments for millions of pensioners

[Emma Woolf @EJWoolf]

Meanwhile an 80-year-old grandfather killed while walking his dog, a 13-year-old boy stabbed in his own home, pensioners terrified of heating their homes this winter, prisoners being released early, knife crime rife - and our government is SERIOUSLY DEBATING OASIS TICKET PRICES??

[Anthony Fowler @afowler06]

It’s a scary time to live in the uk. I worry more about my kids and their kids and future generations, this country is just getting WORSE AND WORSE

[douglas james gray @douglasjamesgr2]

A day in Paisley 😂😂

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@Keir_Starmer Shouldn’t you be concerned about attacks on *all* communities?

[Darius Slay @bigplay24slay]

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[Dirty Footballer 👊 @DirtyFootbaIIer]

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[IFL TV @IFLTV]

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[Bambulu @Bqmbulu]

“Let the young man in his desperation go out and hunt. If he kills the elephant, his poverty ends. If the elephant kills him, his poverty ends.”

- African Proverb

[Enzo Maccarinelli 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇮🇹 @theRealEnzoMac]

As you get older and wiser u start to realise that most people are full of shit