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major components made here. how much in total is made here or assembled from foreign parts i dont know. its a fine line between made and assembled, i doubt any manufacture in the west is 100% local, and china only has so much because they've allowed every tom, dick and harry to build plants...

i suppose i see that i've come at it differently because i've attempted at least to bring economics to the debate. the cold hard numbers. you still havent answered which group you percieve to be the wealthy, nor how much you think they should be contributing. i didnt intend to twist words...

on the other hand, Airbus and Boeing buy Rolls Royce engines made here. Lucas supplies parts to the German auto industry. its not even new thing to source abroad, and it goes both ways and always has. apparently the car industry in this country is in good health, factories producing more now...

i'll spell it out. you say "we're not really hearing any policies that are hitting the wealthy in any shape or form". i'm asking who you think are the wealthy that arent being hit already. i present some facts to qualify this, to highlight that the "wealthy" are already paying an awful lot...

if your point was that political debate is trivialised and based on poorly informed, entrenched positions, then yes i am.

would you be refering to the top 1% who pay a quater of the total tax haul, or to the top 10% who pay 55% of the total? maybe the top 50% who pay 88% of that total? funny how this is always overlooked. a bit like the financial sector being the most regulated sector other than energy, they are...

no, but we are at the stage of making up wild claims to argue against policies we dont think we like. its not a tax, its one part of a much larger peice of legislation, and its enableing legislation that someone down the line uses to apply new rules and regulation. no where does it say...