theProle

The asylum issue is still a problem for two reasons. One is it's really expensive. The other is that it's only down to 7% of the total because the government went insane and permitted a huge amount o… (View Post)

Trouble is that because councils aren't businesses, they don't get the business treatment for failure, which tends to include firing the layers of expensive idiots in suits that such organisations te… (View Post)

As an employer - why put in more than the statutory minimum, unless your employee wants you to? The total cost of their renumeration is the same to you either way, you don't care if they spend it par… (View Post)

This being logical, and obvious, namely that taxing something means you get less of it, the obvious question is why do we tax work and employment so much? Surely the best taxes are either on things w… (View Post)

The problem with your argument, is that someone needs to go down the mine. What we're doing is sending them on a very expensive course in something often unrelated to mining, so that they can go down… (View Post)