Mr Heliums Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 3 hours ago, Dawson Park Boy said: Rather than being a socialist state doling out goodies to all and sundry it should aspire to being a wealth producing nation with low taxes What's unaspirational about paying sensible taxes if it results in a better, happier country: one that builds schools, encourages learning, replenishes our libraries, cherishes the health of our loved ones, or makes sure our old folk are treated with respect? I mean, that's what taxes should do, right? Of course, maybe you've forgotten that. Maybe you think taxes should be spent the way they are by Westminster – on writing off £12bn of wasted PPE spending, or on spending £37bn on track and trace with 'no discernible benefit', or laying out £13bn on failed defence procurement, or even ponying up £100m on frivolous challenges to disabled benefits claimants. I mean, yeah, if taxes were to go on that, fair enough. I'd like to think Scotland will aspire to better, though. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clown Job Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 So glad they never deleted that account 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
O'Kelly Isley III Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 1 hour ago, BFTD said: He's already explained that more millionaires = more tax. More tax = more money for people at the lowest end of society, somehow. He's also explained previously that we have to keep cutting taxes, as people with money just won't pay them unless we keep cutting to win the global race to the bottom. It's almost like he just parrots contrarian shite in order to get replies, and doesn't actually believe any of it. Crazy. I reckon he's a security guard and no-one told him the factory shut 18 months ago. It would explain the Email volume. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawson Park Boy Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 32 minutes ago, Clown Job said: So glad they never deleted that account Just as true today as it was then. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GiGi Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 Ach time to bin that account. Tiresome pish. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antlion Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 2 hours ago, Dawson Park Boy said: Just as true today as it was then. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 Nice whoosh from DPB there. Let's see how this one goes... Nothing is better than being in a union with England! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 13 minutes ago, BFTD said: Nice whoosh from DPB there. Let's see how this one goes... Nothing is better than being in a union with England! I’d like you a lot more if you ignored the c**t. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 15 minutes ago, Granny Danger said: I’d like you a lot more if you ignored the c**t. Enough to share some of this Million Pound SIPP I've heard so much about? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 1 minute ago, BFTD said: Enough to share some of this Million Pound SIPP I've heard so much about? Sure. Send me your bank details. And your PIN. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 4 minutes ago, Granny Danger said: Sure. Send me your bank details. And your PIN. Oh, I see how you amassed your fortune now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Jo Jo Junior Shabadoo Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 11 minutes ago, BFTD said: Enough to share some of this Million Pound SIPP I've heard so much about? It’s only £900k since Friday. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 1 minute ago, Joey Jo Jo Junior Shabadoo said: It’s only £900k since Friday. Thankfully, the Scottish Government won't be paying it out after independence. We'd have no money left! lol. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 43 minutes ago, Joey Jo Jo Junior Shabadoo said: It’s only £900k since Friday. Nah, I got the nod from Kwasi. It’s almost doubled. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Venom Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 If England wanted to pursue independence, who would they ask for permission, and who would pay their pensions? 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry_Tibbs Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 13 hours ago, The Skelpit Lug said: As more and more people in Scotland accept the realities of what's unfolding with Truss & Kwarteng, an independent Scotland is looking ever more likely. What Carlos Fuentes said about Mexico's change in direction in the 90s seems to fit Scotland as well - "The road will be rocky, but the stones on the path can well become the masonry of the future". Mind you, building for the future would seem to be alien to the current UK that seems hell-bent on tearing the whole place down. How did it turn out for Mexico? I fear that's where we're heading if you lot get your way. You'll be content in your poverty though, just so long as you can GIRU the English. 10 hours ago, git-intae-thum said: He must have a crystal ball if he can tell what an independent Scotland's deficit (if it has any) will be. It's a quote from a Lib Dem Spectator journalist. That says it all. If we have a deficit? Are you seriously that much of a fool or that disingenuous? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antlion Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 5 minutes ago, Terry_Tibbs said: How did it turn out for Mexico? I fear that's where we're heading if you lot get your way. You'll be content in your poverty though, just so long as you can GIRU the English. If we have a deficit? Are you seriously that much of a fool or that disingenuous? A Brexiter pretending they give a single shiny shite about the economics of leaving a union (rather than just giving a GIRU up Johnny Foreigner). Now that’s entertainment. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
git-intae-thum Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 1 hour ago, Terry_Tibbs said: How did it turn out for Mexico? I fear that's where we're heading if you lot get your way. You'll be content in your poverty though, just so long as you can GIRU the English. If we have a deficit? Are you seriously that much of a fool or that disingenuous? No need to be rude. No credible statistician or economist would ever predict exactly what an independent Scotland's fiscal position will be. Only Britnat mouthpieces and their mahogany napper followers take what's currently shown in GERs and try to apply that to iScotland. But for your education, UK GOVS own figures show Scotland ran a fiscal surplus for much of the 20thC and into the 21st. This is a wealthy, wealthy country. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTillEhDeh Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 Hypocrisy abounds from the unionists over the CalMac contract.Both the Labour and Tory parties were adamant that it should go to a domestic shipyard - or have they forgotten that? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Steele Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 7 hours ago, Terry_Tibbs said: You'll be content in your poverty though, just so long as you can GIRU the English. I'm always surprised at the number of times anyone suggests Scotland takes a different path as an independent country the knee-jerk response from some people always seems to be that it would result in poverty (ironic, given the UK at the moment), and that it's somehow a GIRU to the English people. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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