Wednesday 3 February 2016
s rahman edinburgh: Tax, tax and more tax.
s rahman edinburgh: Tax, tax and more tax.: Tax, Tax and more Tax. I think I’m turning into my mother! I’m shouting at the TV and responding out loud to newspaper articles, an...
Tax, tax and more tax.
Tax, Tax and more Tax.
I think I’m turning into my mother! I’m shouting at
the TV and responding out loud to newspaper articles, and I hear myself/herself say…’tax, tax and more tax?’
We hear that the Danish government is now set to
confiscate valuables from migrants to pay for their upkeep in Denmark.
Presumably ‘start up costs’ of a sort. Or perhaps the Danish government will
call it something like…’an entry tax’.
But then, last week our PM was talking about a
‘bunch of migrants’. Bunch? Bananas? Monkeys?
Oh, you could make capital with that
one. So from the rhetoric of racism to actions reminiscent of fascism, where
will this end?
Economic migrants have
left (there) due to a lack of economic prospects, therefore they expect to
work, earn, and contribute (here). What ‘wealth’ will they be bringing? Those
fleeing war, oppression and violence tend to leave in both desperation and in a
hurry. Do the Danes expect to find riches sewn up in clothes, or in shoes? Or
swallowed perhaps?
Could the thinking be that migrants and refugees have so
much left over after paying the people smuggles, that there will be something
available for the Danes?
Where one goes, another follows. Think Switzerland.
And yesterday, 2nd Feb. Labour leader,
Kezia Dugdale announced that Labour ‘s vote winning, new policy in time for the
May election is going to be…..a penny tax, complete with a so called
progressive element. The more you earn, the more you pay. Possibly a good
principle, but we have that principle and that tax already, remember.
So it is mighty strange for Labour to believe that
you counter the current austerity by introducing a new tax. A cumbersome tax
too, since they want the lowest earners to go through a process of' not paying'
by ‘reclaiming’.
What a ruse, since we all know just how many ‘benefits’ go
unclaimed already!
A stealth tax then on the lowest earners since they’ve got
other ‘things’ to worry about and don’t ‘reclaim’.
What other things? Well, food banks haven’t gone away. School
clothes banks are now well established on the landscape.
The UK government will
challenge the recent decision by the Court of Appeal which found the bedroom tax
was discriminatory against disabled people and victims of domestic violence. So the relief felt by certain sections, disabled
and survivors of abuse, is now watered down as they wait for the results of the
appeal, and the continuation of the actual tax.
Oh yes, we’ve got to use every ‘tax’ possible to
raise revenues, even to the degree we invent more.
So step up people, and pay
your taxes. We all do…
………unless your name is ‘Google’
Kezia Dugdale (born 28 August 1981)[1] is a Scottish Labour Party politician and has been the Leader of the Labour Party in Scotland since 15 August 2015.
She was previously the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party in Scotland from 2014 to 2015 and has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Lothian Region since 2011.[1][2]
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