Comments by "The English Channel" (@OnlineEnglish-wl5rp) on "The UK's Decaying Economy: A Country Without Solutions?" video.

  1. The property pricesaree killing people the most but they don't feel like they can complain about them so their minds turn to tax. The taxes are high because the super rich have every means possible of avoiding tax. And yet we have to bail out their paper wealth when the banks collapsed. We also live in the most privatised states in the world. A vast proportion of public money is diverted to subsidised public utilities, outsourcing companies and then things like tax credits for low wage employers and housing benefit for landlords
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  2. Well the US is where neoliberalism got started.
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  3. Well if we're so terribly short if labour why aren't those wages rising? Is it because we aren't actually short of labour at all and actually have disguised mass unemployment?
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  4. High taxes because the big corporates, banks and billionaires have every means of avoiding tax yet expect everyone else to bail out their bad investments when the banks crashed The British state is almost entirely privatised so where do you think your taxes really end up?
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  5. High taxes because the big corporates, banks and billionaires have every means of avoiding tax yet expect everyone else to bail out their bad investments when the banks crashed The British state is almost entirely privatised si quite obviously most of your taxes end up in private pockets as well
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  6. Well the US also imposes mass unemployment via mass immigration. The oversut of labour is the key to the power of the business class over the rest of society.
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  7. Productivity is sluggish because companies prefer a vast oversupply of cheap labour than investing in new equipment. The country is grossly overpopulated and hopelessly dependent on food imports
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  8. The number of people in work has never been higher and there are only 900,000 job vacancies (Google the figures) at any one time so what all those people supposed to do for money? Tbe fact is we abandoned Full Employment in 1976 and the business class and Tories won't ever let it return without a fight. 450 people applied for a cleaning job in the West Midlands the other week, so quite obviously the claims about "laziness" are just media lies to distract from where the real blame lies. If employers were really desperate for workers wages would be going up and up If the Establishment is determined to replace its own people through mass immigration, impose a low wage, high housing cost model at the same time as relentlessly denigrating the national culture and history, it's no wonder so many people are ill. They're in an impossible situation
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  9. Oh please, families started to break up in the 80s when the Reaganites and Thatcherites came to power and started imposing mass unemployment to break organised labour. The welfare state was what prevented total socisl collapse in the areas affected. Your understanding is the reverse of what actually happened Now we have mass unemployment imposed via mass immigration and the continual offshoring of jobs
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  10. Ireland is no better, it's just a tax haven for the American multinationals which have hollowed out the West
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  11. He'll have got them from the Right wing press which always seeks to blame ordinary people for the consequences of neoliberal economic policy There's never been more people in work. The truth is our countries are grossly overpopulated and we have disguised mass unemployment. They are straight up lying about how many people are actually here
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  12. The issue is the super rich don't pay so you do. They then invest in massive property bubbles created by the banks issuing ever greater amounts of new money. This pushes up your housing costs further draining your income. Then when the banks crash you have to pay to bail them out They will have people killing each other in the streets before they give up on this model
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  13. Oh please, the public sector has been relentlessly attacked for 14 years now. And it's pretty much been completely privatised or outsourced to the likes of Serco and Capita You just can't accept that your ideology is parasitising your own country
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  14. LOL Ireland's a tax haven Britain has put being a centre for the world's dirty money at the heart of its finances for decades. Who do you think invests in all the apartment blocks they keep building?
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