Plenty of benefits, tax concessions etc have been sunset. So people after date X get less than those before. The Supreme Court rejected specific arguments on this under the coalition - which was a de… (View Post)

I’ve sat across from people saying they don’t want to work more hours, because of benefit withdrawal creating an 80% effective tax rate on the extra hours. If that isn’t Laffer Curve behaviour, what … (View Post)

That’s pretty unfair on most Asda managers. They generally seem pretty well run. (View Post)

Ha! Los Alamos was actual incremental on 50 years of radio-chemistry. (View Post)

IIRC, many years ago, the Economist did a survey. They worked out that a fairly reliable definition of “rich” (as in needs to pay more taxes) was something like double the salary (is was 2.2? times o… (View Post)