Comments by "John Park" (@JohnPark-xf2gq) on "Can we afford the welfare state?" video.

  1. ​ @Tensquaremetreworkshop  so looking after all it's population instead of pandering to the wishes of the mega rich is not desirable.l assume you are a typical tory know the cost of everything but the value of nothing.
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  2. You might not prefer the alternative. How good is your Russian.
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  3. ​ @adenwellsmith6908 did you make this up all on your own or did gb news help you.?
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  4. ​ @mikemines2931 what about those who can't afford to pay for it because their countries were ransacked and their assets stolen by the powerful and rich countries.lf someone broke into your house and stole your property and you found out who did it you would expect some recompense no matter how long ago it happened.
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  5. I'm sure the tories would be very happy to speed up the process for you.
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  6. ​ @adenwellsmith6908 we went from a system of bartering to using money centuries ago .
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  7. ​ @ukmoshinist4595  listen to what is being said instead of making up things to suit your twisted logic.
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  8. Christina you need to raise taxes to pay for the vital infrastructure of the country which in turn allows the economy to perform to generate jobs and incomes.the sensible thing to do is to tax the people with the broadest shoulders (the richest)who have benifed from having a functioning economy. Over the last 14 years the rich have been allowed to transfer large slices of wealth Into off shore tax havens at the expense of the 90% and the productivity of the uk.l understand that for the hard of thinking this might be hard
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  9. ​ @tancreddehauteville764  perhaps they are richer than 2o years ago because they haven't had ideological tory type corrupt goverments that are incompetent and have destroyed the countries infrastructure because of desperation to ensure that the mega rich can avoid,evade it's taxes and safely deposit the proceeds of their looting in tax havens.
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  10. Matthew l could write a page in simple terms explaining to you about the error of your statement but it would be a waste of time because you have had your mind made up and probably wouldn't grasp it anyway.enjoy colouring in your copy of the daily hate mail.
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  11. The money has gone to Elon musk and others like them,who will never be satisfied that they have enough and if a few billions live in poverty that's alright with them.
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  12. We have be3n doing that for the last 14 years.the torys want to spend as Little as possible on the state.therefore they had the option of recruiting people to chase either benifits fraud or tax fraud or both if they put more resourcesThey made the decision to go the benifits fraud route egged on by the daily hate mail and the gammon express.this is despite the fact that chasing tax fraud brings in 4 times the receipts that the same effort on benifit fraud does. Despite the fact that would have helped the economy much more they did not do so because its the tax fraudsters who are their donors.one of the recent tory chancellors of the exchequer, the mp for Stratford upon Avon at the time was investigated for tax avoidamce(evasion or whatever the torys have made legal)and had to pay back 5 million in total including penalties.he had to resign as a minister,lost his job at the last election but is still doing alright for himself.l fact he recently on the panel of the BBC,so being dodgy is totally OK with our still dominated tory bbc management. Fiddle your taxes etc and no consequences. Ion
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  13. The answer is the vast majority of people could easily be in the position of needing the welfare state.the mega rich have some degree of immunity,but for the majority one accident can alter your life from healthy one day to life in the gutter another.the welfare state is the best insurance that it won't happen to you.the tory types want to take it away or seriously diminish it,as can be seen has happened over the last 14 years in particular.
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