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Boris In Favour Of Housing Foreigners
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No I'm not. Every property affects every other one. If a rich person cannot buy a place in Mayfair because a rich foreigner gets the place, they buy somewhere further down the ladder, which in turn means someone else gets bumped down the ladder and so on. These markets are not isolated. Yes, I gave him credit for that. It makes you wonder though why these uber rich are spending so much effort ducking a trivial amount of tax. Yes it would. I would like to see a progressive land value tax, with a higher rate paid by non-UK nationals. This is in recognition that there isnt enough residen -
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/borisjohnson/9122818/A-billion-reasons-to-close-the-stamp-duty-loophole.html So Boris (is his name Russian by accident) makes it clear that he wants foreigners to come here and take all of our housing. I guess you can give him a modicum of credit for wanting these foreign legions to pay a bit more tax. Well Boris, if you are not from the UK, you should be paying a penal rate of tax to own property in the UK, levied every year not at the point of sale. It shows once again that the Tories are just about getting as much money into the country so th
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Is someone giving a big call, or is it a tiny whisper about a gut feel the ftse might fall a smidge?
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THE GREAT BIG FAT GREEK THREAD
leicestersq replied to interestrateripoff's topic in House prices and the economy
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THE GREAT BIG FAT GREEK THREAD
leicestersq replied to interestrateripoff's topic in House prices and the economy
Common or garden insurers are often reluctant to pay, not because they are ripping people off, but because they have to watch out for common or garden fraudsters that use insurance payouts as income. With Greece, there is less uncertainty as to whether bond holders have been paid or had their terms changed. -
BB, not all government's do it that way. I think that Japan and Norway have funded schemes. Can anyone confirm this? The trouble is those funded schemes are often a worse idea than paying for pensions out of directo taxation. The state then has to invest the money somewhere, and the state isnt a good guardian of other people's money or a good investor of it. Norway has lost loads I think to US investment banks getting them to buy rubbish. In Japan I think that the scheme ended up with loads of Japanese bonds, which begs the question, why bother, when they just pay out of taxation anyway?
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Milton, they have been discussed. http://www.housepricecrash.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=175401&st=0 Conclusion is that the story is too silly to be believeable. Maybe if they had said $1.5 trillion a few Hugh Trevor-Roper's might have verified it.
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You fail to understand what saved money is. If it is in a bank, then it is actually invested in an asset somewhere, a loan normally. If the value of those assets fall enough through deflation, all the savings get wiped out. QE is probably defending his saved money by keeping the financial system and the productive system working. The cost is that real interest rates go negative for savers, but it ensures assets paid for with loans remain profitable. So you either lose money slowly thanks to qe, or lose it quickly to deflation. It is far better to make savers pay a little to allow the product