If a wealth tax brought in zero revenue to the government, would people still support it? If yes, why?

Precisely. Champagne socialism at its best if you want to be kind, rank hypocrisy if not.

If you’re living and working somewhere else you don’t pay tax here. Unless you have other stuff going on which most won’t.

You are very annoyed the op left but also annoyed others can’t. It doesn’t stack up.

This doesn’t make you any better as you are perpetuating the very wealth inequality you don’t like

Stay if you want
Your kids can stay if they want

No one else has to in a country that hates those who are high earners, hates those in big houses, hates anyone and everyone that has more than them

Life is too short to put up with this pathetic, envious and quite frankly really scary U.K. rhetoric.
If this Government doesn't see sense, there will be nothing left to run this country and pay for the welfare state

I do hope they don’t listen to the envy politics on SM and by the likes of Raynor

Because we stayed in the UK and paid higher rate tax, when we had many options. We chose to.

and here in lies the problem

People don’t want others to have more than them but are happy to make hand outs to family members. Those that receive it are in effect in possession of unearned wealth.

They are perpetuating wealth inequality
but it’s OK if they do it because it doesn’t count

Why don't you take your own advice then and not accuse me of troll hunting. And don't accuse people of 'abuse' just because they don't agree with you.

Because the choice was taken away from them by ignorant people who would never have travelled anywhere.
Not conflicted at all. Freedom of movement is excellent. So is paying tax in your home nation.
Both are possible.

But that's selfish and greedy surely? I mean it's what I would do but then people like you would shout "but what about starving children" at me and make me out to be a twat.
You want to reduce wealth inequality yet are happy to perpetuate it as long as it benefits your family.

So why lament they can’t go now, you seem to be conflicted.

Have you read your posts? Try reading them back again. Maybe tomorrow. If you think op is a troll report it. Try and refrain from mixing posters up, abusing them and accusing them of stuff from other threads they’ve not done or even authored or been on. People can have a different opinion to you and that’s valid. It does not make them a troll.

You have backtracked. You accused me and I quote stating you are going to do something to put the cat amongst the pigeons is not that bright if you then go on to claim you're insulted and hurt by your fabricated cat amongst the pigeons shitty wind up threads!

Then said oh maybe that wasn’t you when I asked for proof.

Good for them. We should all support our countries.

Can you clarify. What’s fiction now?

I feel there is a moral obligation to highlight such toxicity as people reading these pure works of fiction may believe it's the truth.

Good for them. We should all support our countries.

So hide it instead

How am I personally attacking you? I'm definitely not backtracking, I don't backtrack. It is just tedious reading these toxic and pathetic wind up threads.

Many YP the world over travel for a few years before returning to their home countries to settle. DH is British and the majority of YP on his side have done this. All are back in the UK and all but one were net contributors by age 30.

How am I personally attacking you? I'm definitely not backtracking, I don't backtrack. It is just tedious reading these toxic and pathetic wind up threads.

Sadly not because Brexit has made that option far more difficult.

Most young people who are able to leave are not deliberate tax dodgers.

So why do you think you’re in any position to judge the op?

So wait. Not only are you personally attacking me you are making false accusations by quoting me and now you’re backtracking because it’s not true. Now I wasn’t even on whatever thread you’re talking about.

Wow.

Are you honestly claiming it not to be true, maybe you weren't on the thread but it is true of the OP.

And? It’s not some moral hurdle to stay in one country. You’ve just lamented that they can’t leave anyway.

You’ve benefited from rising house prices and passed that on. There’s no moral high ground here.

Ideally to raise money, perhaps other policy would help to redistribute more of the wealth to more people. I'm not an economist myself. I've seen mentioned that assets could be taxed given that the very rich often hoard their money overseas but they can't do it was UK assets.

There has to be something we can do to redistribute the wealth in the country a bit more fairly. The leader of the greens for example said recently that more than 50% of the wealth in the UK is held by only 50 families, so 50 families have more wealth than everyone else in the UK put together if he is right. Something should be done about that when people can't afford to heat their homes or eat properly or even afford a roof over their heads.

We keep squeezing ordinary working people because they are the sitting ducks who have no choice but to pay even if they can't make ends meet otherwise. While very wealthy people multi millionaires and billionaires not to mention many large corporations just pick and choose how much tax they want to pay while benefiting from the the UK state that. you and me pay for, NHS treatment for their staff, Infrastructure, Education etc. They are also quite happy to take bail outs and corporate welfare when it suits them but get all sniffy about a disabled person needing financial support.

Private companies who own and operate essential services like Thames water prioritise dividends for their shareholders (its literally a legal requirement) don't use that money to reinvest in their infrastructure and when it fails they want government bailouts or their customers to pay even more to cover the costs of upgrading the system when they should have been doing that all along. Its criminal and I'm fed up listening to people who say nothing can be done to stop these people. I'm fine with them being rich but I'm not fine with them hoarding all the wealth and leaving ordinary people living hand to mouth, I've no desire to go back to the Victorian Era.