Saturday, 9 March 2013

No Dave you cut taxes for the rich

It seem like every time David Cameroon (and his minions) talks about tax he strongly implies that he raised the top tax rate to 45% rather then dropping it from 50%.  No David you cut taxes for the people in the country that have the least need of a one and who are least likely to reinvest it in anything other then financial instruments so complicated they warp the fabric of time and space. Pretending that the 50p rate never existed does not make it make a tax cut and tax hike. 

The other excuses is in a classic example of "Tory math" raising the tax actually lowered the tax because people only evade taxes out of a principle rejection of governments having money not because they like having money themselves and if taxes are lowered they would gladly pay all their taxes and more rather then running the same scheme with different numbers.  If this increased avoidance did happen it will have more to do with cuts to the budget of her customs and revenues leading  to less tax men, scaring off the experienced senior taxpersons that actually know to fight the tax dodging and demoralizing the whole department, A department that was already lean if not malnourished and which keeping getting more and more work to do.

In conclusion Dave your a lying plutocratic nepotist.






























At this point since I am a firm believer politicians good work must be acknowledged less it be undone whilst we're not looking (something we forgot to do during the Labour years and are now paying for) and so their isn't a bias towards anarchy, even if it is gone by someone you hate I must admit that rising the threshold for the lowest tax rate has benefited a lot of poor people (but not very poor people) and is one of the (very) few goods things good by the coalition. Also thanks for getting gay marriage through Labour lib dems and slightly less horrible conservatives.

Wednesday, 6 March 2013

Opinions are usually dumb

 Dear Society 

Please stop expecting people to always have opinions about everything. I don't know you neurotypical dudes work but when some asks me my opinion on a building, decoration, some other persons opinion clothes, some cultural thingy I usually have barely noticed said thing until you disturbed my (very interesting) train of though and asked me about it.  Now I have to quickly recall said thingy and make up some opinion with enough detail so that I won't get any annoying follow up questions in about 5 seconds or you'll assume I'm hiding something, leading to even more annoying questions. Even if you are in possession of the instant opinion gland that 90% of people seem to have this is still a bad thing because changing your opinion, now matter how flippantly you form it has a high emotional cost which only increases the more you have to depend said opinion because you can't stand the idea of ever being wrong. It eventually leads to before arguing about opinions they suddenly conjured up like their suspects in murder trail with a death sentence. 

The only times when I form opinions when not being expected to pull one out is when I have a chain of evidence going back observed scientific evidence that said thingy is, as far as my current knowledge goes, either factual true or false or morally right or wrong. If it can't be tied back to that either because of lack of knowledge or the subjective nature of the thingy then I probably don't care even if about a thingy I am familiar with and know whether I like or not I'm not interested in convincing you either way.

People please be more willing to be neutral about things and to be neutral about that neutrality. Fight the opinion surplus.