Meanwhile, CGT is still levied at a substantially lower rate than income tax, because reasons. Asset rich investors and people subsisting on low-to-middling wages live in separate universes. The econ… (View Post)

It is for us because we've insufficient resources. We can't or won't build enough housing to keep up with demand, the rest of our infrastructure (notably water and sewerage) is creaking and leaking u… (View Post)

But it won't be sorted out because there's no more money. Or, more accurately, half the population has nothing left to give and the Government is too terrified to turn the other half upside down and … (View Post)

We're a lost cause because it won't be done. Too many voters have too much to lose from major reform of a socio-economic system where too large a proportion of finite resources are spent on the least… (View Post)

I'm assuming that Musk is more interested in drones than basic infantry cannon fodder. Putin can afford to fight to the last Kalmyk; even allowing for the cult following and the autocratic tendencies… (View Post)