That Corbyn fella...

it's a proper shitty piece of work

And to Greenhell's point:

(Shamelessly stolen from Twitter).

Hope you paid free market price for the antibiotics rather than the NHS subsidised price of a prescription.

why Ken Livingstone wasn't expelled from the Labour party?

Because he was factually correct (whilst obviously also politically incorrect FUCKING MENTAL to actually say it).

By the way, I don't think Corbyn is an anti semite. I do think he is prepared to overlook the antisemitism of others if their worldview aligns with his own.

This.

All identity politics is a poop. Hang around it too much and you’ll get some on your shoes and ruin the carpet.

The rich already pay a lot more tax than anyone else. Isn't taxing them even more kinda discriminatory?

All taxes are discriminatory no?

NHS don't subsidise prescriptions unless you're over 60, have a disability, on benefits etc.

high earners should not be taxed more than anybody else

They aren't. They pay no tax on their first 11,500. Like everyone else. The same 20% on the next 33,500. The same 40% on the next 105k, and then the same 45% on anything over 150k.

There's no discrimination involved.

I'm not sure that's correct. There is a set NHS price for prescriptions - it isn't magically the case that all drugs cost the same in the market. You'll see this if you go in with a private prescription - it will be considerably more expensive for most things.

If you are over 60 or otherwise entitled then they waive the fee - but the costs of NHS prescribed drugs are otherwise subsidised if the cost would have been above the determined prescription price.

My mum just got the all clear for cancer (follow up tests pending) having been diagnosed, operated on and discharged all within a month courtesy of the NHS.

i defy anyone who suggests there's a better healthcare system anywhere on the planet, and anyone that seeks to dismantle it, for whatever reason, can fuck off forever.

Technically isn’t that wrong, as the personal allowance is reduced by £1 for every £2 you earn over £100k?

Good point - it's been a while since I've done PAYE. I stand corrected.

Such discrimination.

Someone should start a tumblr.

-1/7

You're right, it's a horrible little quirk of the rates / withdrawal of allowances. But no govt will seek to change it because 100k + earners don't garner much popular sympathy.

I'd pay more, happily, if it was to benefit society.

How much more? 5%? 10% You could donate 100% of your income right now -nothing is stopping you. I'm sure your local council will be happy to receive it.

Tax over and above what's needed for basic necessities is theft.

That is a brave display of ignorance.
Want to try answering again,
or,
do you believe that the NHS is so efficient that every course of prescribed medicine costs (magically) exactly the same as a prescription?

^^ Steady on there, Timmy Teaparty.

Tax over and above what's needed for basic necessities is theft.

yeah don't tread on you, 'ey, sport?

Fuck me. Its Diable again, isn't it.

@Velocio

strewth.

How much more? 5%? 10% You could donate 100% of your income right now -nothing is stopping you. I'm sure your local council will be happy to receive it.

Tax over and above what's needed for basic necessities is theft.

Any donation that I care to make will not, because it is a donation, change how the institutions of society function (unless I was galactically wealthy, which sadly I am not).

These decisions need to be taken with a view of society as a whole - what the requirement is and what the available funds are, and what the implications of any such change would be (both positive and negative).

That tax is theft is risible - literally a childs understanding of the world.

unless I was galactically wealthy, which sadly I am not

Taxed too much, obvs

I would posit that tax is currently not covering basic necessities.

It might be ignorance, happy to learn otherwise? I haven't ever waited around long enough to use the NHS, so I just paid the pharmacy what it costs.

Taxed too much, obvs

I'm the victim here!