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Posted on 11/26/2014 11:31:37 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Former England footballer Sol Campbell has clashed with Labour MP Owen Smith over the party's proposed "mansion tax" on properties worth over £2m.
Mr Campbell owned a £25m house in London and a "country pile" in Northumberland.
But Owen Smith said his party was only asking people like Mr Campbell "to pay your fair share".
He also told Daily Politics people who were "struggling" under this government would have "zero sympathy" for people who complained about having to pay the tax.
Mr Owen said there was a "gross inequality between those who've got the most, like Sol", and those at the bottom.
He added that it was "absolute nonsense" to allow "unearned wealth just sitting in the economy" when it could be used to fund the NHS.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Sol must not have gotten—or in English—got the memo. Doesn’t this sports comrade understand that his petty sacrifices are for the greater good?
O’Brien: The Law of Gravity is nonsense. No such law exists. If I think I float, and you think I float, then it happens.
Winston Smith: I love you.
In American, like Winston this old boy’s gotta get his mind right ...
As if they need even more taxes
It’s ironic that the “labor party” is the one pushing redistribution so hard since their base doesn’t really labor, but sucks on the dole.
Right out of Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels!
He added that it was “absolute nonsense” to allow “unearned wealth just sitting in the economy” when it could be used to fund the NHS.
Oh boy it doesn’t take much to recognize an absolute moron.
What’s this unearned wealth gambit, and who says it is just sitting in the economy, and please explain how it will benefit the populace to sqaunder said unearned wealth on a money sucking hole called NHS which is only a liability not a source of revenue.
In the real world, where what you say may have consequences...
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25 million pounds is about $40 million dollars. I wonder what the property tax would be on a $40m house in the US? I wonder how much it is over there?
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