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He also increased his wealth by like 1.4 bil over the last 8 or so years so let's not pretend he was getting screwed.


So we want his £330m in tax but it's not ok for him to increase his wealth at the same time?


No I'm saying that we shouldn't be held to ransom by selfish cunts who just ...

He also increased his wealth by like 1.4 bil over the last 8 or so years so let's not pretend he was getting screwed.

Football does a good enough job of damaging the sporting integrity of football tbh

I wouldn't be opposed to having the higher rate corp tax come in at a higher level tbh.

Maybe making football a place for billionaires to park huge amounts of money wasn't the best plan in hindsight

I don't know man, I'd rather a simple system where everyone pays than constantly shifting the goal posts to let the already wealthy off the hook.

Saw one of the new retro Honda evs the other day, looked cool.

That's suggesting that the people who earn the most pat proportionally less tax than everyone else, which seems like a backwards way to work tbh.

As someone looking for their fourth new job this year,I can't really agree on that.

Maybe 40 years ago but not now.

If you're just talking about job creation and tax revenue it doesn't have to be oil.

We could be funding retraining and encouraging people to start and sustainably grow businesses.

It's easier to just let big capital eat us alive though.

Wrt Aberdeen, it's struggling because all the people who ...

We're not spreading the wealth though. The last 10 years has seen one of the biggest consolidations in wealth in history.

I remember arguing that we shouldn't vote for these people 2 years ago because nothing would change and I was wrong then too

It's very funny to me that I'm the ideologically blinkered one to a bunch of people waiting hopefully for the uselesss cunts in charge to do something they've never once hinted they'll do

It's not that we shouldn't, it's that we won't.

It's been confirmed multiple times that anything dug out of the north sea will be sold on the open market, therefore it won't change how we source and pay for fuel in any way.

Sure it's politics of envy, you got me

It's hardly that.

Energy prices are literally going up tomorrow by another 3.5% while energy companies are making record profits and people are struggling to pay their bills.

But sure, the government will drive a hard bargain for the same people wanting a bigger prize.

I have no faith that the government would do that. They've shown no interest in putting the population before company profits so far.

None of that addresses my core argument that we shouldn't reward energy companies bleeding us dry with new revenue streams.

I assume you don't think nationalising what's left of the fossil fuel industry is a good idea, so there isn't a way for us to get that oil in any way that would help energy be ...

That's a different conversation though. We should stop pretending that giving an energy company a license to drill would be useful to us as anything but revenue generation.


But considering the perilous state of the public finances and what the bond markets think right now, that revenue would ...