Craven Schools Partnership C/D 31 Dec
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Now Who's Running Scared?
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Diddly. //Anyway, are you claiming that you've never received what others have earned? No free education, no NHS treatment, no child benefit????? All paid for from what someone else has earned.//
Everyone, regardless of their contributions – or not - to the coffers of society, receives all those things so that’s irrelevant. You were talking about a ‘fair’ distribution of wealth which is something different entirely. Tell me, diddlydo, why someone who has ambition and a determined work ethic, and takes the trouble to educate himself in order to obtain well-paid employment, and works his socks off to improve his lifestyle, should give his hard earned money to someone who either doesn’t have the wherewithal to do that or can’t be bothered? Why? What’s ‘fair’ about that?
Everyone, regardless of their contributions – or not - to the coffers of society, receives all those things so that’s irrelevant. You were talking about a ‘fair’ distribution of wealth which is something different entirely. Tell me, diddlydo, why someone who has ambition and a determined work ethic, and takes the trouble to educate himself in order to obtain well-paid employment, and works his socks off to improve his lifestyle, should give his hard earned money to someone who either doesn’t have the wherewithal to do that or can’t be bothered? Why? What’s ‘fair’ about that?
No surprise, Bigbad.
Furthermore, diddly, the high earner is paying the top rate of Income Tax, so he's already well and truly sharing his wealth. Add to that the possibility that his children are privately educated, the likelihood that he has private health insurance, and the reasonable assumption that he's paying rather a lot of Council Tax because he's worked hard to buy a rather nice house which he pays to maintain - no calling the Council in to fix his central heating or roof for free - it follows that he is a real bargain to society because he give much and takes virtually nothing back. Fair?
Furthermore, diddly, the high earner is paying the top rate of Income Tax, so he's already well and truly sharing his wealth. Add to that the possibility that his children are privately educated, the likelihood that he has private health insurance, and the reasonable assumption that he's paying rather a lot of Council Tax because he's worked hard to buy a rather nice house which he pays to maintain - no calling the Council in to fix his central heating or roof for free - it follows that he is a real bargain to society because he give much and takes virtually nothing back. Fair?
I agree as well. Some folk think that people who earn a lot of money haven't made sacrifices to do so. They've worked hard and in all likelihood missed all their kids parents evenings and nativity plays along with loads of bedtime stories.
Too much envy in this world. If you want it, go an flippin earn it.
Too much envy in this world. If you want it, go an flippin earn it.
The gap between rich and poor is a disgrace in this country today.
Hard work and gumption don't necessarily end in reward.
And by the same virtue, you don't have to be lazy and/or feckless to end up with the *** end of the stick.
And no, I'm not jealous of anyone. I'd like to be better looking and younger but hey-ho.
Hard work and gumption don't necessarily end in reward.
And by the same virtue, you don't have to be lazy and/or feckless to end up with the *** end of the stick.
And no, I'm not jealous of anyone. I'd like to be better looking and younger but hey-ho.
Some people on here fail to get my basic point which is that, although I personally am comfortably off, I'm saddened that there are really poor people (and poor through no fault of their own) in this so-called developed country while there are others rolling in it and whinging about paying too much tax. No question of envy on my part. And seeing that Naomi mentioned private education and private health insurance - both should be abolished so the rich can appreciate (or not) what they've bought out of.
I’d love to have David Beckham’s wealth, but I never will, but rather than moaning like a stuck pig and wailing about the perceived inequality of it, I prefer to think he’s earned what he’s earned and bloody good luck to him.
And that is the fundamental difference between you and me.
I don’t think it’s wrong for people to amass money through their work, whereas you do.
You have a problem.
And that is the fundamental difference between you and me.
I don’t think it’s wrong for people to amass money through their work, whereas you do.
You have a problem.
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