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platinumsage
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Cid
Proper break this time
They could, but they would be very expensive flats, and probably a bit of a pain in the arse to live in. Alternatively you could just leave them to ruin and build some much more appropriate ones in the grounds. Which I realise isn't exactly your point, but just as an analogy to the problems with repurposing old buildings.
And the ones not suitable for housing could be re-purposed into community centres or other community facilities.
Cid
Proper break this time
No they wouldn't as we're in charge and we can set the prices. We'd have made them very affordable, assuming we hadn't abolished money along the way.
Maybe Buckingham Palace would be better as a museum, nightclub or hospital though?
I don't mean because of the prestige or anything, I mean it's labour intensive to make that kind of change to a building. Time costs. A lot of surveying, a lot of tricky design decisions, a lot of non-ideal solutions because in the end you're working with something built centuries ago. And it'll never have the energy performance of something like a passivhaus. I'd keep some of those older buildings as is, bit of history etc... People interested in their design, maintenance and restoration can have them. Some workshops in the grounds, conservation research stuff, guest suites if the occupiers are up for that. Buckingham palace probably museum though.
muscovyduck
Good IT skills and food hygiene competent
Woaah woaaah. Not so fast!
The rich might have lots of money compared to you or I, but it's next to nothing when compared to their actual worth.
A bad wealth tax would force them to liquidate their assets such as shares.
That alone would tank the stock market.
Citizens wage would be the slippary slope to a CBDC...because by definition everyone would be a receipient, they would be very tempted to issue a national digital ID and sling the "citizens wage" on that. Very dangerous.
Also a wealth tax would mess up a load of different markets starting with the stock market as rich people would be forced to sell assets to pay such a tax.
SpookyFrank
Don't swallow the cap
Do you think that a state of affairs where we're all at the mercy of the stock market is sustainable? The stock market effectively destroyed Liz Truss' premiership in a matter of minutes. Being shot of Truss is no bad thing but the way it happened should be a matter of grave concern.
SpookyFrank
Don't swallow the cap
Mine would be, they can have whatever titles they like but Meghan has to start spelling her name Megan because that's how you fucking spell it.
I suppose we should just be thankful we didn't end up with Princess Chelsy.
With the right people in charge, yes.
People couldn't see how Truss' government could fund tax cuts, which led to a run on GBP which of course affected the FTSE.
Some think that the BoE brought her down because she didn't play ball with them.
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Dystopiary
The system isn't broken; it's rigged.
Well if we can't have an anarcho-communist utopia just yet, as well as what others have said about housing, taxation, the monarchy and other things I've forgotten...
Take all that land from the tiny few people who own it. I think only 8% of land is public. That should change.
Stricter laws on cruelty to animals.
Surprised noone's said this - scrap the damaging fitness for work tests and generally stop making it so horribly difficult for disabled and long-term sick people to survive. They've been treated abysmally thanks to Labour's introduction of destructive changes to the benefits system, which paved the way to the Tories making life even harder for some of the most shat upon people in society. It's literally been killing people, and should be a national scandal, but it's suited successive governments that many people who can't work are the least able to protest, and very often carers are too busy, exhausted and skint themselves.
On a slight tangent, ban outsourcing of care. People with learning disabilities are living in horrendous conditions, and it needs to stop. Everyone who needs care should be properly cared for, and carers should be properly trained and paid a decent wage.
Take all that land from the tiny few people who own it. I think only 8% of land is public. That should change.
Stricter laws on cruelty to animals.
Surprised noone's said this - scrap the damaging fitness for work tests and generally stop making it so horribly difficult for disabled and long-term sick people to survive. They've been treated abysmally thanks to Labour's introduction of destructive changes to the benefits system, which paved the way to the Tories making life even harder for some of the most shat upon people in society. It's literally been killing people, and should be a national scandal, but it's suited successive governments that many people who can't work are the least able to protest, and very often carers are too busy, exhausted and skint themselves.
On a slight tangent, ban outsourcing of care. People with learning disabilities are living in horrendous conditions, and it needs to stop. Everyone who needs care should be properly cared for, and carers should be properly trained and paid a decent wage.
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
bollocks - there's billions and billions parked in property investments in the UK for a start - hit that with a haircut- also a 1% tax on currency speculation would rake in a huge amount.
A lot of currency speculation are done on exchanges outside the UK. Surely it would just be simpler to raise capital gains by 1%?
As for property investments in the UK, how do you propose to tax them? A wealth tax implies that whoever the owner is gets a demand for tax for a percentage of the total value right? If they don't have that money, surely they would be forced into selling the property?
SpookyFrank
Don't swallow the cap
There aren't any people in charge. People don't act quickly enough to shave off those vital nano-percentages in split-second trades. It's all algorithms.
Some finance companies have built microwave relay networks to link them tomthe exchanges because broadband, which travels at the speed of light, is too slow for them.
SpookyFrank
Don't swallow the cap
1%? How's about parity with the rate tax on earned income, only without the personal allowance.
LDC
Normie ultra left and proud
LOON LOON LOON LOON LOON LOON LOON
Serge Forward
Felonious Manc
Nationalise the top 200 kebab shops.
Storm Fox
Trying the find the next noun to verb
Ban crypto mining.
Save terawatt/hours of electricity.
Anyone caught will be given a chalkboard and an endless supply of chalk and told to start writing out the 2 times table until they realise that the energy put into a system has nothing to do with its intrinsic worth or how much energy is stored in that information generated.
(See the Bitcoin thread) Or don't!!!
Save terawatt/hours of electricity.
Anyone caught will be given a chalkboard and an endless supply of chalk and told to start writing out the 2 times table until they realise that the energy put into a system has nothing to do with its intrinsic worth or how much energy is stored in that information generated.
(See the Bitcoin thread) Or don't!!!
Not this. Ice cream from a nozel needs banning as an offence to humananity. Replace with all ice cream to be served via scoop and be of fresh vanilla flavour only.
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