talking points that piss you off

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The "If you are a member of an ethnic minority, It isn't a prejudice, it's 'culture' , but if you are anyone else, it is unacceptable" attitude. It is is abominable and is the clearest set of double standards in modern political discourse.

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Any politician who compares the economy to one household deserves to be stretched on the rack.

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This is a good one.

Dig at Thatcher? Why is it so wrong? IMHO, Macroeconomics isn't really very different from Micro, Keynes was innaccurate to say they are unconflateable, and that really was poor mathematics.

Also , people that don't accept the laffer curve as correct get my goat. We can legitimately debate where the maximum point is, but don't pretend near 0 or 100% income tax would generate revenue

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So the whole 95% tax rate we had from 1945-1973... it generated no revenue at all?

Pretty much. Tens of Thousands of wealthy people and celebrities moved abroad. When the top rate was cut to 60%, revenue more than doubled.
Don't forget, Taxman by the Beatles was a protest against that exact policy.. "Should 5 percent appear to small".

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High tax rates are a disincentive to increase earnings , productivity, and revenue, as well as a loophole/avoidance creating tool.

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"Allocating high quality vocational and tradesmanship based education (Plastering, Carpentry, Bricklaying, Car Mechanics, Metalwork, Plumbimg, Electrician skills, Baking) etc to academically less able students creates a two tier system of well to do "Posh" clever kids and poor kids.
After all, its not like there are any well paid jobs in these areas or any need for the skills, eh? Those Polish people are mere decoration.
After all, its not like they may enjoy or be good at these things!"

Merit based , parallell systems are the best.  Yes, the old system was imperfect, but we through the baby out with the bath water. We should have built more Secondary Technicals, introduced a second chance to get in to Grammar Schools at 14 for improved pupils, expanded grammars and funded  the SecMods better. Its what they did in Germany. We have wasted 3 generations of vocational potential.
Also, rename the worst performing Uni's Polytechnics. Not all of the ones that originally were, but most of them.

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You're clearly worse.