Comments on: Ritchie discovers the British tax system

By: Now my advice for those who die – Declare the pennies on your eyes « Cambridge University Conservative Association

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:19:47 +0000

[...] must be cut too. Even if “the rich” were taxed 100%, it would still raise nowhere near enough to fund the current expenditures of the British [...]

By: Not Quite Hayek

Not Quite Hayek — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 01:59:38 +0000

He really is one of the most obnoxious cunts I’ve never met.

Can I use the word ‘cunt’?

In any case, I just have and Richard Murphy still is.

By: Diogenes

Diogenes — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:04:33 +0000

You do a fine job of demolishing the feeble-minded Ritchie. I guess there must be a question as to whether he is influential enough to be worth demolishing, or whether he is widely recognised as a pitiful idiot and you unfortunately add to his limited credibility by responding to him.

By: AntiCitizenOne

AntiCitizenOne — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:52:55 +0000

Why are the rich paying more? They do more for the country by being productive and that’s why they’re wealthy!

The only fair share is an equal share. i.e. everyone must be charged the same.

Discrimination against the productive is the worst possible thing to do.

By: Ian Bennett

Ian Bennett — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:36:50 +0000

Why stop at the rich? Let’s have everyone paying a fair share. I pay for what I use, you pay for what you use and all the welfare and state sector parasites pay for what they use.

That’s fair.

By: GeoffH

GeoffH — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:23:23 +0000

It all boils down to this: “to make sure that the richest in the UK pay a fair share.”

It all depends on what you mean by “fair”. For the Richards of this world, what the “rich” pay is never “fair” enough for them.

For me, and I’m not one of the richest but still a higher rate tax-payer, I already pay more than my “fair” share.

When the top 10 per cent (approx) pay 90 per cent of all income tax receipts then we’ve gone way beyond “fair” and into “theft” territory.

By: And

And — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:47:30 +0000

Excellent.

The comments on Murphy’s piece contain this belter, from the man himself

“So very politely, stop talking complete nonsense and stop telling me I’m confused: I think it is you who needs serious help with your delusions – because that is what they are”

If he didn’t exist (and he does, I met him in the days when he was more than happy to advise those despicable rich foreigner non-doms, albeit badly, on how to avoid paying tax) someone with too much time on their hands would have to invent him.

By: Obnoxio The Clown

Obnoxio The Clown — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:59:48 +0000

Mind if I nick this? I couldn’t put it any better if I tried.