Comments by "oneoflokis" (@oneoflokis) on "Richard J Murphy"
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BUT : WHAT about all the people on benefits, minimum wage, zero hours contract, all that crap: who can't afford new stuff, and can't afford what they need? Who are forced to buy polluting, expensive to maintain old bangers just to get to work? Are you telling me, Richard, that they don't want and need to consume more and better stuff? 😏
I think THAT would be your "growth answer". Make sure more gets to the people at the BOTTOM of the economic scale, NOT those higher up, who already "have enough".
I thought you knew this already? 🙄 Austerity is a blight. Ditto service industries. If people are counting every penny (even middle class people) and giving a large tranche of their income to greedy energy companies, they won't have money to go out. To spend on restaurants, pubs, entertainments, even going to the cinema, which is expensive now.
End austerity! 😠
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I wouldn't be excited about Trump either, Richard! (Mind you, I wouldn't be that excited about Kamala Harris winning either. I would only be excited if Jill Stein won! 💚)
I think that Americans are desperate financially, and that they've reelected Trump, because they want him to "make America great again", and revive what Americans call their middle class.
But once they find his protectionist and racist policies don't work, they won't vote for a Republican the next time! (And Trump can't stand again, according to the US Constitution.)
I agree with you that Musk's involvement is a bit worrying. He should keep his nose out of politics!
And if there is more inflation due to tariffs - well the good thing about the US system, is that they vote the entire House of Representatives in or out in two years! So Trump will lose control of the House. (Unlike here, where lazy careerist MPs, plus the likes of Farage, can sit there undisturbed for five years! 😏😏😏)
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@saw6386 This is all nonsense. It didn't happen when the minimum wage was introduced: and similar (Tory) arguments were then being ranged against it.
Anyway - how do YOU know what people will treat themselves to? A coffee is far more affordable than a holiday. Everything is expensive nowadays (and maybe not that good quality). But if coffee shops, chain or otherwise, weren't sufficiently popular to make their existence worthwhile, they wouldn't have mushroomed over every high street in Britain.
And as for holidays - I really don't know what you are arguing here! Nothing very well thought out. 😏 You didn't mention for example that a foreign holiday would take most of that money out of the UK: whereas a staycation might bring that money to for example, Cornwall, where I live! 🙂 (We need it, thank you very much!)
And I know what it is like to have to manage on a small income, and to try to avoid luxuries for most of the time, and to save most of my income for groceries or bills, because I am on ESA disability benefit! And I am sure that Corbyn very much understands the lives of his constituents who are on low incomes, too! Why do you think he got reelected?
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Well: I think maybe they would be, if they applied it exclusively to the multimillionaire and billionaire "farmers", aka tax dodgers..
But, you see, according to other YouTubes I have watched, farmers are NOT totally concentrated on complaining about income tax! They want things like: the government to ban supermarkets etc using staple products (like milk) as loss leaders; they want planning rules to be changed to allow for more farm shops and farmers' markets, to make then less dependent on those supermarkets.. And a whole raft of other things like that. As one farmer said: the UK cannot afford to lose 5 farmers per year, let alone 500! (Which is the projected figure, at this rate.)
And I think you are being Pollyannaish, about what you think the GOVERNMENT will think the land is worth! The IRS are HARDLY likely to say any land is worth "zero", now are they? 😏 Farmers are understandably worried, that every time a farm is passed on to an inheritor, that inheritor will have to sell some of the land, to pay the tax bill. That would whittle the land down to nothing in a few generations. 😏
Why do you trust the government not to do this?
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@goodlookinouthomie1757 Yeah? Balls!! How COME some people can eat "anything they like" (ie, eating "normally", not high protein or keto or anything else - yet they never put on much weight, and are always a "normal" size? And for others, to LOOK at a slice of cake makes them fat? And if they go on a diet, they "plateau" very quickly, hence "dieting makes you fat"?
And it's NOT usually because the "normal weight" folks do a lot of sports, or (these days especially) have a very physically demanding job, or anything! Incidentally: nursing is a very physically demanding job, yet I've seen loads of fat nurses!
Do your research. (There's not enough on the issue on my view. But one of the more interesting things they found out decades ago, was the difference between white fat and brown fat. The skinnies have a lot more brown fat (thermogenic fat) than white.)
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