Do you think the government should tax private school fees?

  • Echo Dot
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    4 days ago

    I mean that’s literally the governments job. Without taxes we wouldn’t have a government so that sentence makes literally no sense

    • zante@slrpnk.net
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      4 days ago

      My dear old thing, as we have established to everyone’s satisfaction but yours, there is a large and obvious difference between the Government doing it - with His Majesty’s Revenue & Customs at their right hand - indeed the entirety of the Civil Service - and JonnyOnTheInternet doing it.

      Do you understand?

      If you do, we can move on to discuss how Tax Policy is not based solely what people can afford to pay, but a multitude of other issues, such has lobbying, international competition and even nudge theory - but it’s a dry topic and unfortunately one of us could come out of it looking a bit stupid.

      All told it’s probably best if you smash that down arrow, and move on. But it’s up to you.

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        there is a large and obvious difference between the Government doing it - with His Majesty’s Revenue & Customs at their right hand - indeed the entirety of the Civil Service - and JonnyOnTheInternet doing it.

        Right but it is them doing it so it’s okay then