RE: Closing price19 Oct 2024 20:38
I was trying to watch the football when i replied earlier and so missed something which i'd like to address.
I don't in general blame lack of taxes for a failed state although it certainly is part of the problem and it has been proven that the better societies, the happier societies all have high taxes in common, supplying good services in turn. We need to raise taxes now because we are in such a dire position as a country. The wealth in this country should be shared more equally, the less well off have been made to pay through the nose these last 14 years only to see their standard of living sink like a stone whilst the wealthy have seen their wealth grow at an atronomical rate, whilst paying very little tax.
Wages have stagnated these last two decades whilst inflation has gone through the roof.
This country has a big problem with the age of the population being far outweighed by older people. We need young people of working age to grow as a society and to pay, through taxes, for the services a good healthy society supplies. Fact is this country needs either a campaign to 'breed for Britain' or immigration. We are shooting ourselves in the foot by denying that fact and the rhetoric of the rich, blaming immigration and the working classes for the problems the low taxing of the wealthy and p1ss poor government has created does nothing but harm the vast majority of us who live here.