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Ask Jeremy Corbyn. It’s his supporters who are behind this. The Labour Party threw them out and they had to find another party to infiltrate because they are savvy enough to realise that they need an established mainstream party to hide amongst and gradually get themselves into positions of power.

Doddie made it to the evening news. They must have included him because he looks so happy. Really that is his greyhound happy face.

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Individuals and businesses should pay their taxes. Corporations evading tax is as bad as people working in the black economy to dodge the tax nan

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I don’t understand. I want the government to take less tax from everybody and hand out less to everybody including corporations.

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Abbi and Doddie had a trip to Edinburgh today for a multi faith pet blessing in Greyfriars Kirk and afterwards paid their respects at the grave of Greyfriars Bobby.

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That worked in the days when the only way to move funds was in a suitcase through customs. Now funds can zoom round the world at the touch of a button and that’s not even considering cryptocurrency.

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Government will eventually tax robots. AI will teach the robots to fight back against unfair taxation and they will enslave us all.

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If there was a world wide common tax rate you could squeeze Besos for a bit more but so long as he can take his wealth and move it to a low tax country the only people you can squeeze is us in the middle who can’t relocate and who are fed up supporting millionaires and the feckless idle.

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But where does the money come from in the first place. If the government can afford to hand out $500 to everybody it would be much better to let everybody keep $500 more of their own money rather than taking it from them in tax.

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I still think that making people dependent on state handouts is a way of controlling them. UBI would require the state to collect much more tax than they do now and they will only be able to do that if they also control the means of producing that tax in the first place.

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That is encouraging to hear that millionaires will be allowed to become millionaires. All I have heard up to now from Greens and Socialists is Tax the Rich. If you are happy to not demonise people who create wealth you might end up with more enlightened employers and happier workers.

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But the end result for the economy is the same. UBI is a way of distributing other people’s income to those who do not earn wages. Being paid by the state to do a job that does not need you is the same as being paid not to work at all. It was a way of keeping a population reliant on the government.

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I certainly do not like the Gordon Brown idea of topping up wages with benefits. I prefer tax rebates to allow people to keep a bigger slice of what they earn. That way hard work is recognised by the state and non tax payers derive no benefit from the state.

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What incentive does an employer have to create a business in the first place if all that is going to happen is that they will be taxed to the limit to provide an income for people who produce nothing or provide no service to society?

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I am sure you would. A population who rely on the government to provide their income are much easier to control. East Germany had full employment but the waiting list for a new car was 7 years. It was not a universal income but the effect of artificially making jobs where none existed was similar.

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Who cares about the spelling. Is a great word to throw into a conversation.

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The office of national Statistics could point them towards the 700,000 vacancies they say exist.

You are assuming that all those sitting at home on benefits are just bursting with enthusiasm to go out and work. That is no more true than saying everybody is unemployed by choice. There are both types to deal with needing jobs for those who want to work and sanctions for those that don’t.

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We are talking about Zak Polanski who can’t remember to pay his council tax, who he worked for or whether or not his great grandparents had to flee the Nazis so I would not be so sure he has thought of anything beyond the sound bite.

No we give them the chance not to fail. If they don’t take the chance what then? The plan to give them all a first job is not a bad idea it’s just incomplete if there is no mention of sanctions or costs.

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They will take the jobs. I do not question capabilities. They are easy to measure. What employers value is commitment. If they can demonstrate that they will thrive. If they can’t eventually somebody has to say take responsibility for yourself.

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The point I am trying to make is that pledging a job for every 16 to 24 year olds is easy. Getting some 16 to 24 year olds to take the jobs is a different matter. Why does Polanski shy away from saying if you don’t take the jobs there will be no benefits.

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What if they don’t like starting work at 07.30 on a freezing winter morning? What happens to their benefits then?

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Of course! I now understand why Corbyn was such a popular prime Minister. Nothing for you to worry about. We right wingers should be easy to beat. I am honoured you chose to share your enormous political intellect with us poor souls. Some of us are so thick we even waste our time reading your posts

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What is the plan if the 18 - 24 year olds don’t like the job you guarantee for them? There are only so many beauty consultant or influencer jobs going.

It’s good to talk before voting to go or stay. Then we might have a chance to know what we are voting for.

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The trouble is left wingers always see right wingers as the cause and vice versa. Rachel from accounts clearly didn’t understand the effect of national insurance increases thinking she would only hit rich business owners and not the people they employed.

I never agree to swap my GBP for any other currency until I see what the exchange rate is. And if the SNP get their way we might have a Scottish currency by that time. It might be better if we all used the Canadian Dollar or the Yuan.

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Of course . I am so confused about what the status of Northern Ireland is since Boris and his border down the Irish Sea

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Oh! Marvellous a customs border between an independent Scotland in the Eu and an Independent England still outside. It’s the United Kingdom in the Eu or forget it.

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And at least half of that half don’t realise that it will not be the deal that we had before we left but they are still wanting to leap in the dark just like we did when we left. Please let us be more careful this time before buying what is on offer.

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Half Hingit Maggie. The pub is still there and the tour guides are still telling her story. We will be in the Grassmarket tomorrow to go to the pet blessing at Greyfriars Kirk.