Quote from: tkbx on March 11, 2014, 01:39:07 AM

I'm not sure how it works over there, but here in 'Murica, the more you raise taxes on the rich, the quicker they start moving to Mexico

Our lot move to 'Murica Wink

(FWIW I would never let the tax exiles back into the country)

Quote from: EvilPanda on March 11, 2014, 02:07:14 PM

A great example of why I'll never understand the lefties.

This guy had it all served on a silver platter, it can't be like that! He has to share! It's our job to force equality!

Silver platters disincentivise hard work and entrepeneurship - silver platters pull against evolutionary benefit and strike at the heart of all that we ultimately deem moral and of value - check out the stats on social mobility , then get back to us Wink

Quote from: PhydeauxLeChien on March 11, 2014, 01:45:07 PM

Quote from: EvilPanda on March 11, 2014, 01:17:12 PM

... and we have a paradox where the more hardworking and efficient you are, the more taxes you have to pay...

The idea that all you have to do to get rich is be "hardworking" is ridiculous.

   My grandfather died in 1989 having spent his entire working life at the coal mine. He was such a hard worker his nickname was "the Iron Man" (nothing to do with Stalin BTW). He was an intelligent man who could discuss with you articulately any subject you wished to raise - and this when the dissemination of information via the internet was but a dream.
   In his will he left £1k for each of his children (he had 5) and £100 for each of his grandchildren (he had 8 ) - he lived in council accomodation so had no property to call his own.

   Whats £5800 in todays money ?