Funny events in anti-woke world

[Bedinsis]

What, you don't alreaddy tax land ownership ?

Wikipedia suggest the UK is "discussing" implementing it.

So I can be wrong but: no.

 

[tstorm823]

Uhrm, no, nobody ever suggested such a system. An unrealised gains tax would make that completely redundant.

And what underutilized resources would this open up?

 

[Silvanus]

And what underutilized resources would this open up?

If the tax disincentivised people from buying/hoarding properties solely as receptacles to hold tax-free wealth, then it would free up housing, business space, and land.

But more directly, it would ensure that such assets are at least generating income for the treasury.

 

[Phoenixmgs]

You've just chosen a commentator that agrees with you, that's all. That's not "experts in taxes". If I showed you an economist or financial nonprofit saying big business taxes should rise (and there are plenty), you'd immediately dismiss it.

I brought up several specific points they made, and they were bunk. Now you can't point to one you'd credit. Do you have any thoughts of your own?

Big business taxes aren't only unrealized capital gains taxes, which is the subject we are discussing. Got any "experts in taxes" saying unrealized capital gains tax would be a good thing?

There's a few big reasons in there why it would be bad, again you selectively read for the easy ones to shit on.

 

[Hades]

Fragile Dutch government teeters as minister resigns and Geert Wilders rages

Leaders of the Netherlands’ four governing parties are set to hold urgent talks Friday as turmoil builds in The Hague over response to football violence.

www.politico.eu

It’s so SCHOOVER!

is what I’d like to say but I see this ending with a wimper. At the end of the day no one wants new elections. Least of all NSC which manoevered themselves into a position where everyone hates them. Those not aligned with the far and hard right hate them for abandoning all principles to make this coalition happen, and everyone with a stake in this coalition hates them for the vestiges of their morals requiring the other parties to compromise their far/hard right ideals to keep NSC on board.

It’s no better for Wilders. New elections give him some chances but much more risk. MAYBE they’ll get a hard right majority and Wilders becomes PM but PROBABLY they need another party and no one wants to work with him after what happened.

Or the VVD of which the leader put much of her own political reputation on making a hard right government happen. It failing so quickly and chaotically would weaken her position.

Seems the fall of the coalition has been averted. Still just a matter of time really. This has not been the first time the coalition was so engaged with infighting they were on the verge of falling, and it won't be the last.

A bit of context. The strong government reaction against the Islamic community as a whole(and not just the rioters) was a strong cause for this, but not the only one. Apparently another issue that played a part for the politician to resign was that in the government itself the politician all speak in wildly racists terms against each other.

In terms of optics its not exactly a great look that the government freely vents their racism when they think that no one is looking, and that its one of the rare politicians of Moroccan descent, rather than the racists that has to go resign over it.

 

[Chimpzy]

Seems the fall of the coalition has been averted. Still just a matter of time really. This has not been the first time the coalition was so engaged with infighting they were on the verge of falling, and it won't be the last.

A bit of context. The strong government reaction against the Islamic community as a whole(and not just the rioters) was a strong cause for this, but not the only one. Apparently another issue that played a part for the politician to resign was that in the government itself the politician all speak in wildly racists terms against each other.

In terms of optics its not exactly a great look that the government freely vents their racism when they think that no one is looking, and that its one of the rare politicians of Moroccan descent, rather than the racists that has to go resign over it.

Your government falling again, eh? Yeah, can relate. Tho of course, we are doing our thing were it takes forever to get to the actual government part.

On to 542 baby! I want the top 3 all to ourselves.