UK Proposes All Paychecks Go to the State First

CNBC ^ | Monday, 20 Sep 2010 | 7:57 AM ET | Robin Knight

[napscoordinator]

Things to come to U.S. If this ever happens, then we can send our bills to them to pay....lol.

[Genoa]

Isn’t that essentially what happens here with the withholding?

[Oldexpat]

OMG. Do they actually think the Sheeples will stand still for this. Just imagine your check coming in short and having to fight and explain to some faceless bureacrat that they’ve got your deductions wrong.
Now we understand why they took away all the guns and knives.

[rhombus]

OMG. Do they actually think the Sheeples will stand still for this.

Hey, they put up with witholding. Some people are actually excited and treat it like "found money". baaa baaa baaaa

[henkster]

I could see this happening in the UK; they’ve gone too far down the road to socialism.

Unless we reverse course and soon, we are about 10 years away from this. Every socialist in the democrat party and every government bureaucrat is drooling over this possibility. Finally, they get to ration income.

[devere]

You would think this story would be satire, but apparently it is not.

[ComputerGuy]

...deduct what it deems as the appropriate...

A liberal's dream come true.

[GeronL]

totally insane

[Ev Reeman]

Sounds like communism is coming soon to England which means Great Britain will no longer be too great.

That, combined with Islamic immigration to Europe, is quickly destroying the great continent that was Europe.

Why did we even bother fighting two world wars and save Europe’s bacon. What a complete waste.

[GeronL]

“we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us” use to be a Soviet joke.

[bunkerhill7]

UK Proposes All Paychecks Go to the Queen First, like a Colony

[combat_boots]

Black hole financing. The FT must be turning from orange to white.

[Buckeye McFrog]

All You Paychecks Belong Us

[MediaMole]

This is the logical extension of liberal thought. All money belongs to the state and people are allowed to take a set portion of the money that isn’t needed by the state.

[Innovative]

We are a whisker away from this in the US — if the Dems maintain their majority in Congress for another two years, we will see this in the US — as we know, they are very comfortable doing things against the will of the people.

[MEGoody]

I can’t see the people of the U.K. going quietly into this dark night.

[Waverunner]

Yay - I vote for this ... ( please commit me now)

[KarlInOhio]

Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs' motto is "Stand and Deliver!"

[C210N]

Wasn’t this tried already? Like in the Soviet Union, East Germany, North Korea, Cuba, etc...