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UK Proposes All Paychecks Go to the State First
CNBC ^ | September 20, 2010 | Robin Knight

Posted on 09/20/2010 7:52:07 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

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To: rightwingintelligentsia

unbelievable


21 posted on 09/20/2010 8:06:57 AM PDT by vanilla swirl (We are the Patrick Henry we have been waiting for!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
And from there, it's a very short step to a Guaranteed National Income...and then another little one to "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."
22 posted on 09/20/2010 8:08:01 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ( "The right to offend is far more important than any right not to be offended." - Rowan Atkinson)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

talk about killing small business.


23 posted on 09/20/2010 8:08:44 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: vanilla swirl

” unbelievable “

Unfortunately, all-too-believable...


24 posted on 09/20/2010 8:09:07 AM PDT by Uncle Ike (Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

America next. Paychecks to government first and you receive the leftovers, it there are any.


25 posted on 09/20/2010 8:09:44 AM PDT by mulligan
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To: wafflehouse
what a great idea! in fact, instead of sending money to people, the government could just hand out food and gasoline! it would be a utopia!!

Sure, just make certain to skip the gasoline.

Global warming, donchya know.

And then we can increase the chocolate ration from 12 grams a week to 7 grams a week!

26 posted on 09/20/2010 8:11:07 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The battle lines are drawn: On one side, are Dems and Repubs. On the other, the Tea Party (us).)
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To: Lurker
we do this here, always have.

we make the employer pay for the accounting.

if you think it is only the brits bending over, take a look at your pay stub.

our system is more streamlined.

27 posted on 09/20/2010 8:11:59 AM PDT by mmercier
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Taxman, Mr Wilson...
Taxman, Mr Heath.


28 posted on 09/20/2010 8:15:38 AM PDT by tlb
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
I guess the SKS / AR-15 bus will soon be coming to a UK corner near you... Viva de Revolucion!

First against the wall? Screw the lawyers... The Tax man!

Don't these lug nuts get it that this is a very good way to start a revolution?

29 posted on 09/20/2010 8:15:45 AM PDT by Freeport (The proper application of high explosives will remove all obstacles.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

What could possibly go wrong?


30 posted on 09/20/2010 8:21:05 AM PDT by tje
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
The UK's tax collection agency is putting forth a proposal that all employers send employee paychecks to the government.

Just imagine 100% of all payroll dollars/pounds flowing through the politicians' fingers weekly!

31 posted on 09/20/2010 8:29:08 AM PDT by jrushing (Anti-American-ProTerrorist-Coward-Fascist-Communist-Socialist-Democratic Party)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Let them go ahead and try that here and we can get the Revolution over with and move on.


32 posted on 09/20/2010 8:29:59 AM PDT by born2bfree
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To: himno hero

I think this is funny at many levels. What are they going to do with the Sharia business that operates under its own jurisdiction?

nothin’


33 posted on 09/20/2010 8:33:06 AM PDT by Chickensoup (There is a group of people who suck off the productive. They make rules then find infractions.)
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To: Jack Wilson

LOL!!!


34 posted on 09/20/2010 8:35:23 AM PDT by moehoward
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Taxes serve two purposes. The first is the obvious one, to pay for legitimate government functions. The second is to force the taxpayer to be aware of the cost of the government they have voted for.

If a government insists upon being the national paymaster, it will totally obscure to the worker his total compensation, and the cost of government. None of this is constructive to liberty. It is fascism by proxy.

In the US, we have taken a similar tack: government has assumed the power to be informed of all business relationships in excess of $600 via filing of the IRS Form 1099.

Both of these measures are significant expansions of government snooping and taxation powers. Given the traditions and structure of British government, it will be more difficult for their citizens to reverse this course of action than it will be in the US. As horrible as the Obama agenda is, the Brits appear to be subject of a greater hatred of liberty than we are.


35 posted on 09/20/2010 8:40:09 AM PDT by theBuckwheat
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

So everyone will be on the dole only some will be working, why bother? s/
Britain needs its own revolution.


36 posted on 09/20/2010 8:40:44 AM PDT by kalee (The offences we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
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To: theBuckwheat

Allow me to add that if you read the CNBC article, at the end, all that a citizen’s group can say is to suggest that it is just too big of a job for government to handle. This is the pitiful condition that Statism has left the average UK citizen in. Where is the appeal to liberty and privacy? Where is the demand that government show proper respect to its citizens? No, such complains are from the level of someone who has already accepted his serfdom.

November or Never, lest this outrage happen here!


37 posted on 09/20/2010 8:46:17 AM PDT by theBuckwheat
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Everyone in the USofA gets a rubber stamp that says “US Treasury”.

Instead of writing checks to anybody, you simply stamp “US Treasury” on the “Pay To The Order Of”, then write in the real payee in the Note line at the bottom of the check.

The Treasury then receives the check, takes their cut, and forwards the remains to the person/company on the Note line.

Very simple...


38 posted on 09/20/2010 8:54:31 AM PDT by moovova (...he wasn't coming inside to have grits with me...)
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To: kosciusko51
. . . nothing will.

You're right. Nothing will.

There's nothing left in the Isles except to rage at
Americans for our treatment of African-Americans.
39 posted on 09/20/2010 8:57:02 AM PDT by righttackle44 (I may not be much, but I raised a United States Marine.)
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To: kosciusko51
I can't wait for this to be proposed by the Dems.

Who says it would be a Dem? Both party's have proven their tendency to over-tax and over-spend.

40 posted on 09/20/2010 9:08:56 AM PDT by Sarajevo (You're jealous because the voices only talk to me.)
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