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What a load of socialist diatribe. The employees can create their own enterprises if they are unhappy with their lot. Employees have incredible rights and securty compared to some owner manager who work their nuts off. Someone with nothing has everything to gain, someone with something has everything to lose and unless you are stupendously wealthy the rich end up giving to the poor more than the poor give to the rich.

Exactly, people rebelled against it without understanding it. It was more about bringing thatcher down than the fairness/unfairness of the poll tax

Council bods use more council services. Millionaires pay enough tax as it is. No I am not a deliverable inflamer, I truly believe poll tax is more equitable.

You are correct, and with an increased revenue from community charge there could be a reduction in business rates and then perhaps a) we can open up the boarded up shops employ more people the tax on business is too large Also the closer the relationship between what you pay and the services one receives will increase efficiency. Noone understandably likes paying taxes, in the 80's the cnd badge wearing socialist morons should have had ago at the labour run councils if they were unhappy about the levels poll tax charge.

I am sure she pays her way, she should enjoy the fruits of her labour until she dies. The person you describe is often asset rich (house) and cash poor and probably does not burden society in any way. If that type of person is as well of as you think perhaps she also pays for her own medical bills. She may employ people too. No, I strongly advocate that if you make everyone responsible for poll tax it should make them realise that they have a duty to contribute to society. Perhaps IHT still has its place, but that is a different argument.

Stealing is wrong but the poll tax is not stealing and is therfore not wrong - elementary logic. Yes individuals I agree but that shoud include every person that is a tax payer. Roads and schools are used by all either directly or indiretly

Seriously, if you analyse it why is the poll tax a bad thing? Everyone benefits from things the poll tax pays for, in fact those that it supposedly hits hardest are the ones that use most of the services - its only fair. Its is about time responsibility was shared.

I think this would be a good idea, set at a sufficently high level we will have the deficit cleared in no time.

Something like 9% of Nevada will supply all of North America or maybe the world. You are of course right that the UK would be no use, probably only a few sites would be truly suitable, and that would mean that we would have to be on good terms with our mates in the middle east. I dont agree that wind is a waste of time, it has its place, I read somewhere that potentially UK offshore can supply over 3X all the UK's requirements.

Electric powered vehicles will be lower cost in the future and hugely more reliable simply because there are less moving parts, no cooling requirements (or significantly less). I think we will also find that they will weigh less. The energgy store and four motors will weigh less than the weight of the exhaust, cooling system and fluids, engine, gear box, powertrain etc etc, dont foget that when you fill up with gas you are adding 50Kg of weight. Motors, properly designed can last indefinately. Internal combustion engines have limited lives.

Sunny areas world using parbolic collectors could potentially generate a huge amount of energy, all the world would need. Not talking about more expensive PV, although they have a place too. you ony need to invest super efficient oil to create the initial solar power stations. You can have battery powered cars if you want then.

Teachers are generally extremley hardworking, good teachers spend a lot of time in there holidays planning marking and offerring catch up lessons. Teachers do not want intervention from the govt, sats etc and endless initiatives and nor do they want a dumbed down curriculem. Just like the NHS those on the front line should be in control. Teachers pay is crap compared to the private sector, the pension is not that good. 1/80ths of final salary. Stop knocking teachers, try living with one first. As for the ***** that said art teachers should be paid less than maths teachers you consider this we need to teach kids art, literature, philopsophy, sociology, music etc as much as math and english, because if we dont we will just get a load of internet web programmer overpaid IT nerds like many of the posts on forums like this.

It is obsene but while I can get away with it I will. my package has been in excess of 100K for each of the past 3 years, the tax I have paid is err nothing. Very simple and completly above board if you are a director of a limted company and are prepared to lose a fair wedge of it to a SIPP. I say this not to gloat, - there are bigger fish that get away with far more than the likes of me. The fairest system would be no tax on income and much higher taxes on consumption with no tax on essential healthy food items.

Totally agree. A slow or quick death? people are not going to die voluntarily, they will be nuking each other first

Interesting. The bigger the shock the better chance we have of re-evaluating our goals....

Yes, the never ending quest for Growth. There are other measures like free time, if we measured output in efficiency-hours we should hold output constant and reduce hours worked as we become more efficient.

Agree, would a one child policy per female work?

[quote name='hotairmail' date='Mar 6 2009, 09:17 PM' post='1720836' EDIT: I would just like to add that I think we should have a population target for the UK of about 10million. Somebody is only allowed in if we get below this figure....even if it's just for an overseas holiday As many as we can have with all a decent lifestyle with the country providing enough food and renewable energy for itslef. I understand the number is somewere around 20 million.

Yes perhaps you are right, unless we can change our nature to be stewards of the earth and not pillagers

But the space we take up perhaps displaces equally important species...

I dont know where you got you 15 billion estimate from? Maybe all vegetarians on a subsistance diet! What many people dont understand and perhaps yourself is that even if we could sustain 15 billion, arghhh what a god awful place and more importantly it is not just about Humans but many other species which are equally important for earths and therefore humanitys long term survival Dr David Belamy is quoted to have saying that 1 billion is a good number, he knows what he is talking about. The present financial system is based on a layers of people of different social and financial classes all clammering to climb onto the next rung never quite getting there and if they do get there they are not satisfied and try to get onot the next rung. Increased crime and social disorder is a direct result of overpopulation (and fragmented communities) studies have shown that if you over crowd many different animals develop tendancies and are more prone to disease if they are crowded even slighly beyond there natural limits - food theft, violence and dare I say it even homosexuality humans are 'perhaps' more sophisticated than caged anmals.

Population count for reasonable quality of life for all ranges from 1 Billion to 2 Billions

I have not looked at the forum for a while but I can’t help feeling that the worlds problems all boil down to 1 single apparently taboo subject: OVERPOPULATON! Think about it: Housing... (Resource competition) Financial collapse... (Too many crooks / non productive people living off too few productive people) Crime... (Proven that crime increases greater as population increases) I am sure some of you will come up with all sorts of arguments to counter this but even if I am wrong... Is it healthy to be living on top of each other like rats in a cage!

LOL But you do realise of course that Real Estate Professional is clearly an Oxymoron.

I dont think teachers are necessarily better, for a start they dont have to be qualified (although most are now) In fact I know one teacher who moved from state to private because he could not cope with the state school system. He was not that good in the state system so why should he be any better in the private one. I have to conceed that the same teacher is bound to do better if the class sizes are smaller. I would suggest that the state system given the same resources and class sizes would do as well as the private system, in terms of results. It should be born in mind that it is a fact that private schools tend to not enter kids who are likely to not do well. At all costs they must keep up the pass rates for the annual insertion into the Telegraph league tables