Comment on Most English schools handing out clothes and food to children

• charlytune@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Wut?

  I mean I can’t, you’re right, but the government and HMRC can. If the government actually wanted to.

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  • Aux@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Taxing wealth doesn’t work and never did. We have a few thousand years of experience with that.

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    • tenebrisnox@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Groan. Western countries have at times used taxes on wealth to enable massive infrastructure development. Straight after WW1 and WW2 almost all Western countries introduced “profit” taxes of 80-90% and increased taxes on the wealthy. It was the only way the UK, for instance, could rebuild after the war and why we have an NHS and used to have a great welfare state.

      I don’t actually believe we should tax the excessively wealthy. I think we should take what they’ve stolen over the centuries back into common democratic ownership.

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      • Aux@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        UK didn’t have wealth taxes post war. Because wealth taxes don’t work. Off you go back to school.

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