Saturday, September 18, 2021

What a mess we are in. Got any ideas to fix it?

 What a mess!

In the last few weeks we in the UK have found:
  • The UK's poorest will lose £20 per week Universal Credit .
  • The government has welshed on the promise made to pensioners to keep the Triple Lock.
  • We have a severe shortage of transport workers
  • Health workers feel angry that their hard work has been rewarded by claps only.
  • Brexit hasn't saved us £350 million a week - it's costing us £800 million a week. Latest estimates are it is costing every household £870 a year See The real ‘Brexit dividend’
  • Despite months of warning the withdrawal from Afghanistan was chaotic.
The poorest in the UK seemed destined to pay for the government's failures. The amount of money they lose seems trivial to those in government who have £82,000 salaries (£1,500 a week) but if your income after benefits is £304 a week it's not so trivial. See Poverty rate among working households in UK is highest ever
So what should we do to fix things? Anyone have any sensible ideas? The government seems to need all the suggestions it can get (but will they take any notice?)
May be an image of bus and text that says "#TakeCc -£800m a week Let's take back control"

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My ideas:

  1. Introduce a 70% tax on the profits of all industries making armaments. It would generate huge revenue and morally no one should profit from weapons of death. Use the proceeds to reduce poverty.
  2. Admit it - Brexit was a mistake. Rejoin.
  3. Where politicians have been found to mislead, deliberately lie, or break promises made in elections, and this can be proved then reduce their tally of votes in the next election by 2% for each occurrence. This should operate on both an individual and party level. Hopefully this will encourage politicians to fact check, be more honest and stop them making ridiculous claims.

Got any more suggestions?


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  1. John Chapman4:53 pm

    Here's another idea. indirect taxes on some products place a heavy burden on the poorest. Introduce a rebate scheme to repay some of this tax as a monthly benefit. Each household should receive a bare necessities rebate covering the minimum a household will need to survive. The poorest would may no tax on fuel, housing, clothing, necessary household appliances, cleaning products and essential services (including broadband). Have an income over the poverty level and the rebate would drop on a sliding scale to zero for those with an income above the mean income and then generate a negative rebate for those in the top 20% of incomes, again on a sliding scale.

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