is what I call the Olive Line, the line below which people grow olives. North of the Olive Line people pay their taxes and spend public money very cautiously. South of it they fail to pay their taxes at all, but spend a lot of public money - Denis Healey.
You probably wouldn't get away with dismissing half of Europe as idle tax dodgers these days. Still true?
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If you look at the state of the grifting idle tax dodgers in the U.K………
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also the Olive Line is now, thanks to climate change, along a latitude that cuts form Bristol in the west to Norwich in the east. I had four fruiting trees this year which produced ripened black fruits of a reasonable size. A month ago I was at Quarr monastery in the Isle of Wight and they had a courtyard full of fruiting olive trees. In mid December ffs. In England. The dirty Catholic bastuds.
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would love to see his definition of cautious public money spending, Germany, Poland and the UK haven't got the best of records there
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The Natural Party of Government has done a pretty good job of turning the UK into a cold, turnip-eating annex of the Olive Line countries. I suppose when the time comes to Rejoin we can deal with the "sending our money to Brussels" argument by being a net recipient rather than a net contributor!
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Look at what you could have won
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Healy budgets were quite mild really. Tax the rich until the pips squeak.
In 1947/48, Clement Atlee’s Labour government imposed a ‘special contribution’ of 50% on investment income above £5,000 – this applied on top of basic rate income tax at 45% and surtax at 52.5%, giving an overall rate of £147.5%
A similar special charge imposed by Harold Wilson’s Labour government on investment income over £8,000 for the 1967/68 tax year resulted in a slightly lower effective rate of 136.25%.
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