Labour Pledge To Raise Minimum Wage To Eight Pounds Per Hour

You've got me blushing Kev.

Can someone even it up and call me a lovely person, please? Conan?

 

trickle down works!

 

I couldn't do that Liam. I actually quite like you most of the time.

 

Heres a couple of ideas that you might consider;

1) Remove people earning less than £20k per from paying income tax

2) Scrap HS2 and spend the money on giving everyone in the £50k and under bracket FREE solar panels..

sorry way too altruistic and radical to be considered !!!

 

That solar panel idea is a cracking one. There would be implications for the privatised energy generation companies like so don't hold your breath...

 

I'd leave it at £10 for a day return, someone choosing to go there shopping for example, but have heavy discounts on season tickets - so a weekly ticket would be £30 for example, and a monthly ticket £100, so benefitting commuters.

 

And get your carpets vacuumed for free.

Any chance you can abolish national insurance? It's just a tax on jobs, to both the employer and the employee. I can't see a justifiable reason to take money via national insurance from those on low wages only to give it back to them in benefits. Don't take it from them in the first place and there'll be smaller benefit hand outs, don't make the employers pay it and they'll be able to afford more workers, meaning less people on benefits. Plus no one has to waste hours of their time ******* about with national insurance payments.

It's not like national insurnace payments are ring fenced and saved for your pension. It all goes in to the same pot. It's just tax by another name.

 

Would it mean more jobs though or just increased profits? There also needs to be a mechanism for tracking who has paid what in unless you pay anything to anyone.

You could start by making unemployment illegal

 

Leave NI but remove the cap on it so higher paid earners are paying it on all their earnings.

 

Very true.

 

Disagree. The way the World is now is that many businesses move towards flexible home working. See your point but it should be a simple, low cost daily travel cost that you can just rock up and pay, regardless of journey length. I already save a tenner a week on my Barnsley > Sheff journey by buying a pass but sometimes I only use it 3 times.

 

It's on the list.

Vote Dyson.

 

Just like that? No focus groups? Just cos Jay wants it?

 

They ought to throw in free lessons on how to budget your finances accordingly...

 

I would imagine, for larger international firms, bigger profits. But I don't want the legislation bringing in to help them. It's smaller businesses that just employ a few workers that I would like to help. Stop paying national insurance for the 10 people they employ and they might be able to afford an 11th.

 

Vote Jay.

 

Then we would need to limit the rebate based upon numbers of staff. Then it might just help where it is needed. Large companies with their fancy accountants and tax lawyers get away with enough already.

 

Vote you actually. It's basically what you've been saying for years. I've listened to what you've been banging on about boring us all daft, thought about it, read a bit about it and realised you're bang on.

 

They all get there in the end...

 

I agree. But as you point out earlier it all goes in to the same pot so given the loss of revenue it would need to be replaced. Just with a better progressive tax system.