Carryfast:
Rjan:
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I’m saying that taxation should reflect income levels and why would anyone in their later years want to needlessly work through what little time they have left just to pay taxation so as to reduce the tax burden on younger high earners like bankers in their 30’s.
Of course taxation should reflect income levels, but if you’re still capable of working (in more than a nominal or trivial job, which are tax-free anyway) then you’re still capable of paying tax. Schools and hospitals don’t become free to run at any age of life.
Especially when the old semi retired worker in question has paid more than their fair share through a working life of single tax rates.While by your logic you’ll obviously want to increase taxation on all lower earners so as to reduce it on the higher ones.
Don’t be foolish. If you want higher taxation on the rich, then you vote Labour.
As for McDonnell’s 4 day week that’ll be like the minimum wage.IE 6 days work expected from the same workforce in 4 days.At least without putting some decent demarcation etc lines in first.
Agreed, although I think the main argument is that a large part of most workers time at work is spent coping with poor or inefficient organisation, and reducing days to 4 will put pressure on those whose systems are the worst, and those whose systems are already efficient will simply take on additional workers thus soaking up the unemployed and under-employed.
If the problem is that there ‘isn’t enough work to go round’ then why are the jobsites full of full time,big hours and workload,truck/van driving jobs which no one,including the immigrant workforce wants.
Probably because the bosses are not advertising for additional workers, but for replacement workers who will work for less, allowing them to dismiss those already employed doing the work at higher wages.
It costs so little to advertise a job that bosses might as well cast the net constantly, especially in a casualised sector such as ours.
If bosses were engaging in costly training courses and recruitment roadshows and paying golden hellos, then that would credibly suggest they were short of workers, but the mere constant placing of advertisements on an online jobs board is not evidence of shortage.
But everyone is going for the easy car driving stuff and then as I said making it difficult stuff because they want the money but they don’t really want to work for it.As opposed to semi retired workers who need both an easy job and don’t need the money.
You seem to be contradicting yourself. First you’re saying people don’t want to work for their money, then you’re saying they do want to work for their money, and in doing so are increasing the demands of the job and displacing idlers like yourself who want an easy life for pocket money?
You can’t really have it both ways. You either accept that the basic problem is that wages are too low and conditions too harsh for everyone, or you’re just an idler.
In routine occupations that are safe and systematic to begin with and are capable of being done by the average person of any age, most older workers don’t become less capable of working according to established patterns, unless they have fallen victim to a specific medical condition.
You yourself suggest that the problem is not that you’ve already become physically or mentally decrepit, but that you’ve simply had enough and lack the motivation to continue.
Yes I’m against loads more house building on the basis of it all being put in the South East while the North remains an underdeveloped wasteland.With the resulting population inbalance,not housing,having been proved to be the issue.By the fact that the largest housing shortages are in the already most heavily urbanised over developed areas.Not many housing shortages in North Yorkshire in that regard.In which case building yet more housing here and increasing the population of the South East will fix absolutely nothing,It will just add to the problem and destroy the quality of life of those already here as all the previous examples of history have done.
I agree workplaces need to be redistributed to the North, but you’d be mistaken in thinking that houses in North Yorkshire (or anywhere) are available at reasonable prices.
The regional differentials in house prices are mostly a result of the regional differentials in wages and employment levels. That is, for a person working in the North and living in the North, a home is no more affordable than for a person working in the South and living in the South.
As I said casualisation and work shortage is all about the labour supply which ain’t going to be fixed by importing yet more cheap labour to create yet more gerrymandered ‘Labour’ votes.
I agree, allowing market forces to shift mass numbers of workers around the continent has no advantage for workers.
But I don’t agree how this creates gerrymandered Labour votes, especially since the majority of immigrants have arrived under Tory governments, as you already well know, and the vast majority of immigrants cannot vote.
In truth what happens is that most Tory governments open the floodgates, then talk tough about closing them, and in doing so they gerrymander votes from naive native citizens.
The Tory party spent every year of Labour’s time in office criticising immigration, and then what happened since they got back in power since 2010? Immigration has hit a new record high, and they are talking again about reducing their own new visa earnings thresholds back to £20k (i.e. not remotely the level that allows a settled family man to support a household).
As for divide and rule tactics in which the ‘Labour Party’ is obviously trying to turn young against old.The problem being more a case of young people who want the lifestyle and workload of retired and semi retired workers,but at the age of 25-30 with self entitlement issues to match.While also viewing the idea of solidarity and nothing comes for free without working and fighting for it,with contempt.Not older workers expecting too much for what they’ve put in and a reasonable work regime for those approaching retirement.Good luck in pandering to the former in that regard.
I think the supposed self-entitlement of the young is a perennial complaint. Indeed, those who complain most about self-entitlement have always tended to be older Tories looking to exploit other people’s children.
Look at the self-entitlement of Oliver Twist asking to be fed adequately, and sold off as slave labour for his cheek.
