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Captain Haddock
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1) Offer loads of free stuff 'because we are the 5th largest economy in the world'. (Food banks blah blah, housing crisis blah blah, our NHS bing sold off blah blah etc)
2) Find that on taking power you are unable to hand out free stuff 'due to failures of capitalist system'.
3) Replace Capitalism with ownership of property and means of production to be held in common overseen by Peoples Commmisars selected from proletariat.
I can't see how this can possibly go wrong!
http://www.marxist.net/namechange/transitionalprogramme/
N.B. Every penny someone receives but did not earn, someone else earned but did not receive. There is no such thing as government money."We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
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Captain Haddock wrote:1) Offer loads of free stuff 'because we are the 5th largest economy in the world'. (Food banks blah blah, housing crisis blah blah, our NHS bing sold off blah blah etc)
2) Find that on taking power you are unable to hand out free stuff 'due to failures of capitalist system'.
3) Replace Capitalism with ownership of property and means of production to be held in common overseen by Peoples Commmisars selected from proletariat.
I can't see how this can possibly go wrong!
http://www.marxist.net/namechange/transitionalprogramme/
N.B. Every penny someone receives but did not earn, someone else earned but did not receive. There is no such thing as government money.
So why tax at all?
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Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean that politics won't take an interest in you. PERICLES.
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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but even the most fanatical supporters of capitalism must wonder how over 20 trillion got into the hands of such a small amount of people??
and why they feel the need to stash it in of shore closed banks?
and remember most of this wealth come from the fractional reserve banking system ,, hardly worked for ,,lol,,
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Don't forget. Only 6 days to save 'our' NHS (the forth biggest employer on the planet!)
Why not 'just' a penny on income tax (to screw the low paid, just as the Conservatives have reduced their tax burden by raising tax free allowances)? I can't see how this cold possibly go wrong, after all we are the fifth biggest economy in the world etc.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Brian Dixon
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I've got two money trees, one that spouts 20 quid notes , and one sprouting 50 euro notes.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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You may jest Brian but here is the proof of its existence.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Stone me Howard. I didn't realise it was all so easy.
There was me thinking economics was much more complicated than that involving mathematical modelling with differential equations etc.
Fortunately we have a potential Chancellor with an 'ology' who can explain with diagrams how things work and I realise I wasted years getting a First Class Honours in Mathematics and trying to understand what I stupidly thought was complicated stuff.
Off to write a letter to Father Christmas.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean that politics won't take an interest in you. PERICLES.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Funny thing the money tree, MPs shake it and get heavily subsidised food and drink whilst school children doing the same would get a rice crispie or two each day.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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The magic money tree flourishes most when a desperate PM is clinging to power.
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Keith Sansum1
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Buying favours with the DUP whilst upsetting tory leadership in Scotland
it will all end in tears
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Keith Sansum1 wrote:Buying favours with the DUP whilst upsetting tory leadership in Scotland
it will all end in tears
More importantly is the damage that will be done to the peace process, we can be certain that most of the bribe will be spent in loyalist areas. The men and women of violence in the nationalist community will be stirring up hatred in people that thought the dark days in the province were over.
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Bob Whysman
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I was going to post my feelings on Treason Mays latest mad moment but words fail me!
Will the last one to leave the country turn off the lights!
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Do nothing and nothing happens.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Indeed Howard, the Irish agreement is in tatters at the moment, and the latest move by T May to go in with the DUP could re start all the troubles in Ireland.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Not done the riffmertick as the thought has just occurred to me. If say the Scottish Tories withdrew their support from the Government and Sinn Fein members finally decided to get their bottoms over to Westminster on vote days Cruella would have great difficulty in getting her way.
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" If say the Scottish Tories withdrew their support from the Government"
Why would they do that?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Coming thick and fast now.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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More to follow i'm sure
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