Seemingly trivial things that intrigue you
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So a tax on ill health then?
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Would there be any unintended consequences of this otherwise enlightened policy?
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You might want to back of the sherry for a couple of days.
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f@ck em all. Mwhahaha. They don’t give a sh!t about my lot, why did I think they did?
Ill vote for anyone who’s “fiscally responsible” with spending on the aged but profligate for working age families 🫡🫡
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Radical and well thought out are two different things....
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It’s been a long time since you’ve voted for a party with “well thought out” policies so I’d not throw too many stones…
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”Is this the right room for an argument?”
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I just did. Carry on...
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Start by talking us through your genius 'capital gains tax on houses for old people' idea.
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Pay per visit healthcare is pretty dumb though. Discouraging preventative medicine, penalising certain conditions as though they are somehow a choice. And god only knows how anyone could afford to be disabled or have CF or anything selfish like that.
Come on, I know you hate boomers, but you can do better than that.
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Talking to a paramedic yesterday, there are some unintended consequences of the current approach of everything being free at point of service too.
I don't think introducing some charging somewhere in the system is necessarily the fix, but it does seem that the current approach is creaking at the seems somewhat.
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He's turned from a lib to a full blown me, me, me; fuck 'em all tory quicker than I expected.
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More like a **** 'em all leftie as he wants stuff without having to do anything for it.
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Perhaps Rick could go to Australia……oh
Grim there too..
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How about somewhere closer to home like Portugal, Luxembourg or even Turkey?
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Look, it’s not fair policy.
But I’ve stopped caring about fair. My entire adult life policy has been skewed to people born before 1965. The current system is totally unfair.
So f@ck em. I’m done.
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Struth, Sheila. Sounds like a perfect storm of bad luck and bad policy decisions, the two biggest policy cockups being incentivising property as an investment, and restricting new development. And there's the familiar story of aid to first-time buyers not helping them, in effect, but going to the sellers.
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I was born after 1965 and rather than moan about unfairness (whether real or perceived), I've done what I can to make things fairer for myself. Seems to have worked OK - maybe you should try the same.
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Look, what you do for a living is utterly valueless in the grand scheme of things. You would be on the Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B, along with the hairdresser's and management consultants. I'd be on the deck below. And yet, you are highly paid and own your own home.
Where does "fair" start and finish?
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"Make things fairer for myself" is an interesting concept.
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Yup. A lot of people bang on about fairness when in reality they just want a bigger slice of the pie, while forgetting that it's a competitive world out there.
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I thought in general it makes sense to run public policy fairly, no?
Im not talking personal fairness ya numpty
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I'm not sure anyone but you knows what you are talking about tbh.
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"But I’ve stopped caring about fair. My entire adult life policy has been skewed to people born before 1965. The current system is totally unfair.
So f@ck em. I’m done."
Mwhaha.
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The difficulty here is who gets to decide what “fair” means, in the context of public policy. Go ask 50 people randomly what’s fair, and you’ll likely get considerably more than one clear answer.
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He works in London, I’ve read somewhere that’s the measure of true ambition.
His healthcare policy is basically backdoor euthanasia of the poorest old and sick people. There was some Austrian geezer he’d have voted for 90 years ago.
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How about stop subsidising the railways. I personally don't use the train often, so I don't think that's fair.
RC would either need to pay 4x as much to commute or move house, but no policy is perfect sorry.
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