Raise the Tax threshold to 20k a year and raise the 50% threshold to 200k, suggest a 0.5% annual tax on all total personal wealth valued at over 1 million and maybe combine or abolish other taxes too, but increase the rates of them.
Alt- Boris is a genuinely intelligent man, I would not mind seeing him as PM.
As to who else would make a great comedy PM, I give a typical reply.
Have a guess as to who it would be.
(Glucose-Maximus All over the world., Tue 24 Jan 2012, 15:42, 4 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

Shut up until you know what you're talking about.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 15:43, Reply)

So at what age, please tell, are people qualified to comment?

(Glucose-Maximus All over the world., Tue 24 Jan 2012, 15:45, Reply)

It's more about maturity and intellectual ability rather than age.
I expect you will still be a fuckwit when you've retired.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 15:46, Reply)

If you are measuring Intellectual ability by Academic performance, I am perfectly competent.
Also, I'm not childish, I am able to respect other peoples opinions and the usual stuff.
(Glucose-Maximus All over the world., Tue 24 Jan 2012, 15:47, Reply)

I'm packing some GCSE's too freefair, they bare rinse shit out bruv

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 15:50, Reply)

I don't think anyone in Britain today
measures intellectual ability by academic performance - the top universities certainly don't and neither do I as an employer.

Soz.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 15:52, Reply)

so the average wage of £18,000pa and the majority of people under it wouldn't pay tax?
clever that, can't see us going bankrupt like greece there
(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 15:52, Reply)

We'd raise the rest through cracking down on corporate evasion and through the wealth tax.
Also, the resultant across the board tax cut would potentially produce more revenue, like it did when the bottom rate went from 40 to 20p in the 80's.
(Glucose-Maximus All over the world., Tue 24 Jan 2012, 15:54, Reply)

I justified an opinion with facts. Yay!
(Glucose-Maximus All over the world., Tue 24 Jan 2012, 15:59, Reply)

How do you propose to crack down on evasion moreso than present?

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 16:00, Reply)

Make companies pay every penny they owe, hire more tax inspectors, simplify the tax code.
The way other nations do it.
(Glucose-Maximus All over the world., Tue 24 Jan 2012, 16:02, Reply)

Sounds like hot air
Britain has a relatively efficient tax administration system largely free of the widespread corruption as demonstrated by a number of countries within the EU, let alone the rest of the world
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 16:06, Reply)

I'm using many of the Anti-Cuts protesters arguments here but using them to say reduce tax
rather than "Maintain/Raise public spending".
(Glucose-Maximus All over the world., Tue 24 Jan 2012, 16:08, Reply)

a stick wityh some poo on the end

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 16:02, Reply)

Hahahaha

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 16:31, Reply)

How do you propose to measure everyone's 'wealth'?
Maybe everyone in the country can fill in a form every year.

And then HMRC could recruit 10s of 1000s of staff to process them all.

Oh wait a minute, this isn't really simplifying things, is it?
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 24 Jan 2012, 16:03, Reply)

Fair enough.
Maybe leave that part out.
(Glucose-Maximus All over the world., Tue 24 Jan 2012, 16:04, Reply)

So therefore you can't raise the funds to remove half the country from taxation.
jelly.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1510405
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 24 Jan 2012, 16:05, Reply)

Raise other taxes then.
Maybe put a 60% tax on all income above 250k a year or thereabouts.
It would be the same as Denmark then.
(Glucose-Maximus All over the world., Tue 24 Jan 2012, 16:07, Reply)

You're just guessing with numbers here
Taxing a relatively small number of people earning over £250K at 60% will not make up for removing millions of people from taxation altogether.

Plus of course people on £250K p.a. probably already employ accountants to help to minimise their exposure in the first place.

Your numbers, such as they are, don't add up.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 24 Jan 2012, 16:13, Reply)

They wouldn't would they.
It is only something that took 15 seconds to think up.
I didn't expect a full cost analysis.
If it really could increase the defecit I'd not do it.
(Glucose-Maximus All over the world., Tue 24 Jan 2012, 16:14, Reply)

Ok, so you're talk pish then?
We agree.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 24 Jan 2012, 16:24, Reply)

£1m pounds isn't very much, particularly if you live in the South East

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 16:01, Reply)

I haven't decided on the specific numbers but the principle remains true.

(Glucose-Maximus All over the world., Tue 24 Jan 2012, 16:02, Reply)

Are you twelve and retarded?

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 16:30, Reply)

yes, yes he is.
well, he's about 15 and retarded.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 16:41, Reply)

Fair enough.
I thought I recognised the unflappable confidence in nonsense of an adolescent.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 16:46, Reply)

I've always said that they should open up school facilities to the public after school hours.
Like a collage that has evening classes. And people can give lessons on whatever they want on the basis that they give XX% of the class to the school and the people taking these lessons pay for anything they use and leave the room ready to use in the morning.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 16:43, Reply)

So anyone can start a class, even people who aren't educated.
For example, if I wanted to give lessons on website development, I could do so. The whole thing would be volentier based, I can charge or not, up to me.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 16:44, Reply)

Phone your local schools and ask them.
You appear to have had a good idea that's been common practice since before you were born.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 16:45, Reply)

I know collages do, but I didn't realise schools did.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 17:12, Reply)

yeah, but what's to stop someone who knows fuck all about something
giving lessons and just taking your money and teaching you rubbish?

Gillian McKeith teaching nutritional biology for example.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 16:46, Reply)

That's the beauty of a free market.
Charlatans teaching charlatans. A pyramid scheme of poo-obsessed new-age fruitloops.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 16:48, Reply)

and their fucking keyboard player was a shit driver.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 16:52, Reply)

That's one of the [what I thought was] revolutionary ideas behind it...
... it's not there to get a qualification on the wall, but to share knowledge between one person and a group. It can be things like a cleaner teaching people how to clean a house/do the washing/general 'life skills', what product to use with what, that sort of thing.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 17:15, Reply)

I refer to my earlier point
what if the person concerned is a really shit cleaner?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 17:26, Reply)

Then I reckon they'd get found out pretty quick and nobody would turn up to their lessons.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 17:28, Reply)

I refer you to my earlier point
Gillian McKeith. I've not noticed her short of a see-through pot to shit in and then look at recently.

The problem is that people are retarded, therefore there needs to be some control over who is allowed to teach them. Ideally, people who aren't retarded.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 17:33, Reply)

lots of schools do.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 16:44, Reply)

Oh, I know church halls do, and sometimes colalges do, but I didn't realise schools do.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 17:20, Reply)

Lots of schools hire out rooms like this.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 16:44, Reply)