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I really like the way you said what you said. Sounded great. Completely undermined by numerous reports of legal tax evasion schemes. Somehow diminishes the message of an otherwise punchy and excellent post.

That's a load of rubbish, Whitey Grandad. Everyone paying PAYE right now is funding extremely wealthy slum landlords. Everyone paying a mortgage right now is funding extremely wealthy bankers. Sure, the poor might not be handing over 100s of K in each transaction, but there is such a thing called volume. I believe it applies here.

The top 1% pay 25% income tax? I doubt it, and so do you. Half the problem is that our most well-off citizens don't pay any tax. Are you really asking how we define whether someone is rich? Speaking for myself, I tend to check my bank account to determine such things. Of course, this will be very difficult because most of the super-rich people you're defending will have cached large sums of money into off-shore accounts where it does precisely zero for the British economy, but it's a start. I don't think that time-limited tax would be an easy thing to implement. Little ever is, but that's no reason not to pursue it.

NC and NA are big fans of this thread. They want a few k more posts before announcing it officially.

I really like your point about the super-rich, Lord D. Classic straw man. Instead of debating the merits of redistributing some of that vast wealth, it's all about Macca's winter fuel allowance! The only thing that makes this proposal unworkable is political will, and we both know it. Would upset too many of the wrong people.

Sort your Tapatalk signature out, Sir Saint of Skint! You should be setting an example, sir

There are some properly narked people out there on Twitter. One chap is suggesting that Gaston Ramirez moving from Bologna to Southampton is indicative of all that is wrong with Serie A. Another is suggesting that there must be something very wrong with the deal or the player himself for Southampton to be able to out-muscle Spurs and Liverpool.

Twitter is going f*cking mental. Gaston Ramirez is trending.

I'm a big fan of land tax. Not really avoidable and it'd probably do a lot for redistribution.

Just been speaking with the two Liverpool FC fans in the house. They are miffed that Carroll has been loaned to West Ham. Checked the Wikipedia page. Liverpool have four forwards. We have seven. I hope this deal goes through, but Liverpool pretty much have to get a new forward now. Whether it's Ramirez or not, I dunno. Really hope not. However, with Suarez already being there and the stature of the club (ok - not LFC of old, but still), I can see why the move to Anfield would be mutually attractive.

I wholeheartedly agree with most of these sentiments, although I take slight umbrage with your slip from the mother tongue. Bring out your mad, I say - and let's do battle.

The spin-off is better.

Nah, lispy Spanish is largely confined to Spain itself, and mostly around the Castille area.

Watched Rocky (1976) last night. Almost impossible to watch it without following up with the sequel. These movies have been faves of mine ever since the first VHS landed in my house. If you've seen em enough times, they're inconsistent ( Rock is half-blind in the second film - never mentioned again ). But damn, soundtrack and action scenes are tied together beautifully. Makes real boxing seem like chess

As a matter of interest, would those listed give an indication of whether they are gainfully employed?

Not given up on them. The pair of them will hopefully benefit from Yoshida joining. No competition has led to complacency IMO. Both are solid and love the goals they've scored for us. Silly mistakes have been made though. Perhaps the fear of getting dropped is what they need.

Good job. We actually signed a defender with time to spare!

I'd imagine that Penarol will forgo biscuits at this point in the hope they can land a Peek Freen's Trotsky Assortment from the big club we sell him to.

Good lad. Christmas /may/ be back on

Alright skip. Consider me told

No way, man! If there were in any way serious about keeping him, they'd have got better biccies.

Sort your Tapatalk signature out, sonny!

Bit of local knowledge here, but I've heard some scousers refer to pubes as pee-yabs (with obvious stress on the 'ya' bit).

2 options here:- 1) shut up 2) keep digging yourself out of the hole Personally, I consider amateur English teaching on a forum to be a bit worse than an in-joke.

I'm still on 0 all time.