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yeah, they are. and anyway, i think you confuse income tax with wealth tax. wealth grows, and while you may not like the idea that someone at the top is getting more, so is everyone else - the pie grows even if you get a smaller slice. its win all round. only some just dont like the fact some...

he is using the Times Rich list, which includes lots of foreign nationals who happen to have based themselves in the UK. the fact their wealth is largely tied in assets and stock prices is lost on him. he wants to tax the wealth of India, Russia and other nations, which is rather extreme...

i'll stop you there: the top 1% contribute about 25% of all income tax and the top 10% contribute about 55%. so clearly the wealthy are contributing most speaking absolutely or relatively. Its funny how you want to cite last years energy profits, ignoring firstly most the shareholders are our...

it is happening, there is a massive welfare state consuming a third of GDP to provide free education, free healthcare and pensions to everyone, with unemployment benefits, housing and additional assistance to those that are in need. its not alot, but its there, why dont you include this in your...

really, you are incorrigible, he is not a revelation. he saying the same thing as every and any half clever undergrad has said over a few pints or maybe just in the common room. i pity the younger generation if they need a celebrity to get them talking about this old issue, because it certainly...

"explosion" sounds can come from a number of sources, say a gas canisters, or similar sounds like items falling or collapsing. the recording by NYPD (that i recall) is a single sound. witness reports amount to no more than a handful of "explosions", CT requires hundreds of synchronised...

when was art ever not about money, the history of art is always about artists struggling for commissions until they become popular and then their work being seen as status symbols by the patrons of the day. education has only ever been for the sake of it for a handful of exception people and...

do you realise the steel was sold in open auction and took some years for it to be shipped, plenty of time for anyone interested to indepedently aquire and test for unexpected materials? alot of dis-information from the conspriacists is like this, a half truth spun out into somthing that is...

firstly he wasnt living in a cave, he went cave hopping once his plan to fly a couple of planes into WTC was spectacularly sucessfull and the US marines were sent into Afganistan to find him. secondly, you assume that a design will work as expected in real world events, and we know from a...

who said anything about responsibility? its about credibility, if he wants some on the matter, he needs to propose something otherwise its just a tired old complaint echoed since the greeks. Brand's skills are drawing attention to himself. he has succeed in this. since we are talking more...

because its very well being the millioneth person ovr thousands of years to say you dont think things are all as one would like, if you're going to write and ponitificate on the matter then you really ought to have a solution fleshed out. otherwise you're just another bloke down the pub putting...

oh dear. you want to pay people some basic income, yet dont accept what money is - a medium of exchange - and rather go down the "money is debt" rabbit hole. the conclusion of this line of thought is that you want to indebt everyone by giving them something that doesnt exist. the irony is...

so what exactly is it you think those in "meaningless jobs" should do instead? sit around on a stipend from those in "meaningfull jobs" (otherwise known as benefits). and who is to say what is and isnt meaningful? many jobs might not be fun or fullfilling, but are necessary. be careful what...