The Mansion Tax

[Sue]

It always amazes me how unwilling people are to pay tax. On anything.

We have an amazing free at the point of use health service. We have other free at the point of use public services.

Why should we not pay tax? Where else would the money come from?

The Tories promised to reduce income tax (and subsequently did) in order to get elected. 

It was all downhill from there, in my opinion. 

Not that I know much about either economics or politics, so do feel free to explain to me the errors in my thinking.

Re people living in big houses after their life situation changes, that saying about criticism and walking in someone else's moccasins springs to mind. At least, it would if I could remember exactly what it was 🤣

[Dogkennelhillbilly]

2 hours ago, CPR Dave said:

Those 5 bedrooms are all tiny ... For context the minimum size for a two man prison cell is 8.5 square metres. 

It's hardly palatial luxury 

Today I learned that living in a 5 bedroom, £2m+ house in Dulwich is basically like being in prison.

Honestly, CPR Dave is the finest-crafted persona on the forum. He never fails to suck people in - I fall for it every time. It's top quality trolling (in the original sense of the word).

From the Subtle Art of Trolling:

troll v.,n. To utter a posting on Usenet designed to attract predictable responses or flames. Derives from the phrase "trolling for newbies"; which in turn comes from mainstream "trolling";, a style of fishing in which one trails bait through a likely spot hoping for a bite.

The well-constructed troll is a post that induces lots of newbies and flamers to make themselves look even more clueless than they already do, while subtly conveying to the more savvy and experienced that it is in fact a deliberate troll.

If you don't fall for the joke, you get to be in on it.

https://www.urban75.com/Mag/troll.html

[Penguin68]

1 hour ago, Ebenezer said:

"They can move" is basically gentrification in a sentence. 

No, it is punishing people you no longer like or care for, it is 'c;leaning' an area of people you consider undesirable. Forcing people to move house by taxing them for an asset they have already paid for out of taxed income (and remember you will also sweep up purchase tax as well...). Essentially the government is proposing nationalising land, with no compensation. If you have to pay government land rent for your property (which is what a wealth tax is in effect) you no longer own the property. The Government does.

[Cyclemonkey]

That's ........ an opinion I guess.