- 05 Mar 2017 17:32
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[quote=7. Conservatism is not solely about money. It does not see government's sole responsibility as ensuring that the rich keep theirs anymore than it guarantees that the poor get more of it. quote]
I'm sure that the super-rich in America, just like in the U.K think that 'god' almighty ordained their 'rightful' position in society.
Maybe you know the hymn by the Irish poet-writer,Cecil Frances Alexander, " All things bright & beautiful. All creatures great & small"?
In verse; 3 we have,
3.
The rich man in his castle,
The poor man at his gate,
God made them high and lowly,
And ordered their estate.
All things bright ...
This is exactly how the neo -riche 'cons' in the Tory Party think that the 'old' country should be run.
In any 'conservative' society, if you want to know what their TRUE values are, DON'T believe the rhetoric of their leaders, look at their deeds in the budgets, 'follow the money', you will find that it is directed at the rich & better off.
In the U.K, the TORIES justified cutting welfare, in order to cut the deficit, that tells you what & who they think of first.
These same people allow the rich & better off, to claim £40 BILLION a year in Additional Pension Contributions Relief, that's what our government give these people.
That 'relief' means that the government foregoes that amount in tax revenues, as those people's 'relief' is given the status of 'deferred income', that means that it cannot be taxed at that point.
It is supposed to be taxed when it is paid on 'retirement', at the marginal rate, two 'problems' arise from this, first, not only is that 'income' deferred, so too, is the tax liability, secondly, many of these people will move abroad on retirement, thus paying a reduced tax below what that marginal rate should be.
Another ruse the British government uses against those in need is, the, 'Buy-To-Let' racketeering scheme, that amounts to £26+BILLION a year.
Many, many 'private' tenants in these properties cannot afford the prohibitive rents charged, no matter, the TORIES have a very profitable ruse in the form of 'Housing Benefit', that means that these 'private' landlords buy the BTL properties, WITH TAXPAYER FUNDED MONEY, through the Housing Benefit Scheme.
The landlords repay the interest + capital through these guaranteed payments that come from taxpayer funded Housing Benefit, that ONLY benefits 'TORY' created & voting landlords.
Why people cannot see through this criminality or corruption is beyond me, were it a trade matter, the E.U or U.S would have something to say about it, as it is, the U.K is heading down the tubes with deeper national debt from these policies.
What worries me is, even the politicians are so accustomed to what they created in their policies, that they accept them unquestionably, believing them to be 'right', when look from outside of the box, they are quite simply scandalous, maybe it's time to get the 'honest' accountants in to explain the realities to these politicians.
The examples show the politics of self-interest that 'conservatives' engage in when serving those narrow interest, no matter the cost to the public purse.
They say that, for 'evil' to triumph, a 'good' man needs to do nothing, the 'Labour' Party is that man doing nothing.
I would bet that America has examples of 'pork barrel' politics serving party political interest at taxpayers expense.
Our 'democracies' are dying through the incestuous relationship of politicians with big business.
If our 'democracies' are to survive that incestuous corruption, we the people have to wrestle control from both politicians & their pocket lining friends in business.
It matters not what period in history it is, the 'Tories' are not about the 'aspirational' class, they are about preserving the position they believe they occupy, by making the needy people poorer, by taking away their rightful support from the state.
Alongside the theft of that support, they reduce the taxes of their own kind, they care nothing about who pays or suffers from these policies.
Take the policy of getting the disabled 'off welfare & into work'.
The 'TORY' government used the identical FASCIST principles of the NAZIS in implementing that policy.
They employed AMERICAN multi national companies as the 'agents' to 'save' money from the benefits from those claimants, which was then used to finance the contracts of the American companies, to line the pockets of those American companies at the direct expense of those in need.
There was no 'government financed policy' to implement 'welfare to work', it was those in state support that financed it through losing their support.
This is what the NAZIS did, they collected Jews, with others, in town squares, for 'deportation' to the extermination camps by railroad, the guards then collected money from those they were going to murder, so that these Jews PAID FOR THE JOURNEY TO THE EXTERMINATION CAMPS THAT EXISTED TO EXTERMINATE THEM, WITH THEIR OWN MONEY, how's that for cynicism?
The Tories are doing exactly that, but, just like the NAZIS, the TORIES are 'Cynics' of the first order.
If I were in charge of my country, I would purge it of corruption, starting with abolishing the tax breaks & 'reliefs' for the Tory supporting class.
I could save my country at least £100 BILLION a year, close the tax gap & make it really fair for all.
Last edited by Nonsense on 05 Mar 2017 17:49, edited 1 time in total.
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