@hwallop@TfL It's only "truly astonishing" to someone who lives in their own head exclusively and has never dealt with public order. Telling people how to do their jobs (who are actually just doing the job exactly as they have been trained to do) is the last phase before shouting at pigeons.
@DanNeidle@TaxJusticeUK@andyburnham We have a voluntary wealth tax here. Brought in by a right wing govt in 2011. It's a no limit investment account where you pay a flat rate of tax on the value of the assets in the account. No capital gains on dividends or profits. Works out at 1% and is indexed to base rate.
@DanNeidle@JamesSpackman Dan, please check out the RUT and ROT tax system in Sweden for your followers, it has, over the last 15 years completely removed cash in hand payments for cleaning and building maintenance. And has brought 100,000s of people into social security and pensions net.