'nice'guy-
Newferry. But you cannot wave some legislative magic wand and somehow make large employers pay their staff a living wage but not smaller employers. Where do you draw the line?
It doesn't need to be 'magical' - why would it? There is already a great deal of legislation which is required of larger firms but not smaller firms. You draw the line wherever you choose.
Especially considering the law of unintended consequences means you are likely to discourage medium size businesses from growing and people prefering to work for a large company rather than a small. The latter of which we desperately need for new blood in the economy. Remember, all companies start off somewhere.
A business is not going to stop growing on the account of having the pay its workers a fair wage, especially considering many businesses already do pay a fair / living wage. It's not the burden you make it out to be.
amic. I think we need to more than fiddle with taxation. Personally I favour a much simpler, much leaner tax system. Easier to administer, harder to evade. Then we lower our corporation tax rates to attract companies to set up here. Whilst we lose corporation tax (which isn't our biggest earner anyway), we will make that up in additional income tax from the new jobs created.
The UK nominal corporation tax is already lower than most of europe, and many large multinational companies pay NO CORPORATION TAX AT ALL in the UK. It isn't possible to suck corporate cock any more enthusiastically.
On the contrary, any company operating in the UK must pay its fair share of corporation tax, and the tax burden on citizens (especially those below the median) should diminish.
That's the sort of cut throat global market place we are competing in. It frustrates me when I hear of people bashing companies all the time when I can see that the UK is steadily declining as a place people want to come & do business. There's no tax advantage. Our education is pretty piss poor now compared to our competitors. Esp. our asian competitors who are churning out graduates and high tech engineers in their millions whilst we navel gaze and think 'professional footballer' or 'reality TV star' is a great career.
You're just ignorant of the facts, once again. The Financial sector has caused the worst financial crisis and recession in 100 years, and have been accused of money laundering, rate-rigging, and mis-selling products to consumers, and other immoral/fraudulent behaviour - and you're complaining that it 'frustrates you' to hear people bash companies?
Again, many multinationals pay 0% corporate taxes. Not only that, but we subsidise poor pay on behalf of employers so that pitiable UK workers have enough money to feed their kids.
You must exist in a place called the 'UK' on another planet. It doesn't seem to be the same planet as the rest of us.
Because I tell you, unless we change our ways now to compete in the world we are in, rather than the world we'd like to be in. I can see in the next couple of decades our standards of living will just keep getting lower.
Our drop in standards of living is the result of precisely the kinds of things which you a proscribing: low tax regimes for corporations, deregulation, and more corporate cock-sucking. We've had that for 30 years. What we have now, crisis, recession, and steady drop in living standards is what happens when you follow through on 30 years of neo-liberalism.
If we continue along this line, people's living standards will certainly continue to drop. Wages will stagnate or drop, and wealth inequality will continue to skyrocket. Meanwhile, the services we expect from a civilised society, like health and education will be further eroded thanks for the cuts needed to pay for this loss of revenue from corporate cock sucking.
You are utterly clueless. It's shameful that you keep spouting ignorant drivel over and over again on these boards.