RE: 'AU 1' made famous by Goldfinger goes on sale
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Jon_S_Rally said:
Imagine getting cross about the price of a number plate. What a world we live in.
One quick look at the attendees of any socialist/left-wing/Labour Party event will show that 'cross' is the default position. The only happiness in their lives appears to be the free lunches.Julian Scott said:
tr3a said:
Here's an idea.
In a country where 1in 5 people are at or below the poverty line, how about taxing ego car plates? If you can spend money on buying a plate just to stroke your ego, you can afford to contribute to mitigating some of your country's problems. The fewer positions your ego plate has, the more tax you pay. Just two positions? 10x road tax. Three positions: 5x road tax, and so on.
It could be an ego stroking thing in itself: have a short registration, show people you're really doing well, not just for yourself, but also for the country.
Written by the man in the tax dodging Tesla.... In a country where 1in 5 people are at or below the poverty line, how about taxing ego car plates? If you can spend money on buying a plate just to stroke your ego, you can afford to contribute to mitigating some of your country's problems. The fewer positions your ego plate has, the more tax you pay. Just two positions? 10x road tax. Three positions: 5x road tax, and so on.
It could be an ego stroking thing in itself: have a short registration, show people you're really doing well, not just for yourself, but also for the country.
tr3a said:
Here's an idea.
In a country where 1in 5 people are at or below the poverty line, how about taxing ego car plates? If you can spend money on buying a plate just to stroke your ego, you can afford to contribute to mitigating some of your country's problems. The fewer positions your ego plate has, the more tax you pay. Just two positions? 10x road tax. Three positions: 5x road tax, and so on.
It could be an ego stroking thing in itself: have a short registration, show people you're really doing well, not just for yourself, but also for the country.
Sooo... the first thing to remember is that poverty depending on its measure can be a ratio of wealth. So a certain % of a population would be regarded as being below poverty depending on where that is set. So Liechtenstein has people living below 'a' poverty line, but it's a very relative poverty.In a country where 1in 5 people are at or below the poverty line, how about taxing ego car plates? If you can spend money on buying a plate just to stroke your ego, you can afford to contribute to mitigating some of your country's problems. The fewer positions your ego plate has, the more tax you pay. Just two positions? 10x road tax. Three positions: 5x road tax, and so on.
It could be an ego stroking thing in itself: have a short registration, show people you're really doing well, not just for yourself, but also for the country.
Second, are those you are counting people on benefits? So in income terms someone on benefits will likely be below the poverty line, but do they have their accommodation paid, their bills paid etc. and their earnings are therefore entirely disposable. I'm a long time away from such things now and it may be different today, but tobacco, subscription television and gambling used to see this group as very productive customer sets.
As for a tax the rich mandate? I point out that when Thatcher slashed income tax the tax take increased, it became cheaper to pay the tax then hide the wealth, while we must also not forget that people with higher incomes already pay more tax in everything from direct to indirect taxes, its the lower incomes that don't pay much.
I certainly don't have an answer, the use of a universal income was touted as being one but that seems to have many issues in reality.
Jon_S_Rally said:
Imagine getting cross about the price of a number plate. What a world we live in.
I don't get cross at the price, but I don't like plates being taken off old vehicles. I bought a 1931 motorbike a couple of years ago. It has its original number plate which meant that I've been able to trace the full history of the bike back to the supplying dealer new. And I'm now in touch with a bloke who's dad used it daily in the 1950s. None of that would be possible had the plate been robbed off it.
Personally I'd like to see plates locked to vehicles for life and written off it the vehicle is scrapped.
I do wonder what would happen if in the future reg plates were no longer needed and what people would do with them.
It does seem like a crazy amount of money to spend on having some letters and numbers on your car. Each to their own and all that though.
Though I guess it's mostly financial speculation.
It does seem like a crazy amount of money to spend on having some letters and numbers on your car. Each to their own and all that though.
Though I guess it's mostly financial speculation.
ds666 said:
Julian Scott said:
tr3a said:
Here's an idea.
In a country where 1in 5 people are at or below the poverty line, how about taxing ego car plates? If you can spend money on buying a plate just to stroke your ego, you can afford to contribute to mitigating some of your country's problems. The fewer positions your ego plate has, the more tax you pay. Just two positions? 10x road tax. Three positions: 5x road tax, and so on.
It could be an ego stroking thing in itself: have a short registration, show people you're really doing well, not just for yourself, but also for the country.
Written by the man in the tax dodging Tesla.... In a country where 1in 5 people are at or below the poverty line, how about taxing ego car plates? If you can spend money on buying a plate just to stroke your ego, you can afford to contribute to mitigating some of your country's problems. The fewer positions your ego plate has, the more tax you pay. Just two positions? 10x road tax. Three positions: 5x road tax, and so on.
It could be an ego stroking thing in itself: have a short registration, show people you're really doing well, not just for yourself, but also for the country.
Numeric said:
As for a tax the rich mandate? I point out that when Thatcher slashed income tax the tax take increased, it became cheaper to pay the tax then hide the wealth, while we must also not forget that people with higher incomes already pay more tax in everything from direct to indirect taxes, its the lower incomes that don't pay much.
Laffer Curve in action.srob said:
Jon_S_Rally said:
Imagine getting cross about the price of a number plate. What a world we live in.
I don't get cross at the price, but I don't like plates being taken off old vehicles. I bought a 1931 motorbike a couple of years ago. It has its original number plate which meant that I've been able to trace the full history of the bike back to the supplying dealer new. And I'm now in touch with a bloke who's dad used it daily in the 1950s. None of that would be possible had the plate been robbed off it.
Personally I'd like to see plates locked to vehicles for life and written off it the vehicle is scrapped.
Most come from cars that don't exist anymore. If they do, it is because the rightful and legal owner chose to do so.
Not sure why you would want old plates to be written off, other than adopting a grumpy, miserable 'love-child of Scrooge and Victor Meldrew' position.
Terminator X said:
Perhaps if you'd worked harder at school ...
I did quite well at school, thank you very much. So well in fact that I could afford to fill my garage with nice classic cars and never had to finance a new car in my life.Perhaps if you'd done better at life, you wouldn't immediately presume those who advocate for a lower Gini coefficient are all lazy scroungers.
Terminator X said:
tr3a said:
Here's an idea.
In a country where 1in 5 people are at or below the poverty line, how about taxing ego car plates? If you can spend money on buying a plate just to stroke your ego, you can afford to contribute to mitigating some of your country's problems. The fewer positions your ego plate has, the more tax you pay. Just two positions? 10x road tax. Three positions: 5x road tax, and so on.
It could be an ego stroking thing in itself: have a short registration, show people you're really doing well, not just for yourself, but also for the country.
Perhaps if you'd worked harder at school ...In a country where 1in 5 people are at or below the poverty line, how about taxing ego car plates? If you can spend money on buying a plate just to stroke your ego, you can afford to contribute to mitigating some of your country's problems. The fewer positions your ego plate has, the more tax you pay. Just two positions? 10x road tax. Three positions: 5x road tax, and so on.
It could be an ego stroking thing in itself: have a short registration, show people you're really doing well, not just for yourself, but also for the country.
TX.
tr3a said:
Here's an idea.
In a country where 1in 5 people are at or below the poverty line, how about taxing ego car plates? If you can spend money on buying a plate just to stroke your ego, you can afford to contribute to mitigating some of your country's problems. The fewer positions your ego plate has, the more tax you pay. Just two positions? 10x road tax. Three positions: 5x road tax, and so on.
It could be an ego stroking thing in itself: have a short registration, show people you're really doing well, not just for yourself, but also for the country.
It's a cracking idea and I hope that the Chancellor, or one of his advisers, is reading this thread. In a country where 1in 5 people are at or below the poverty line, how about taxing ego car plates? If you can spend money on buying a plate just to stroke your ego, you can afford to contribute to mitigating some of your country's problems. The fewer positions your ego plate has, the more tax you pay. Just two positions? 10x road tax. Three positions: 5x road tax, and so on.
It could be an ego stroking thing in itself: have a short registration, show people you're really doing well, not just for yourself, but also for the country.
However, it probably doesn't really go far enough and should be extended such that those can afford to buy their coffees from companies such as Costa, Starbucks etc. should be made to pay an extra wealth-tax whereas those who take a flask should be exempt. Likewise, extra taxes for those who can afford branded 'designer' clothing, much of which is also an ego-purchase. The more labels, the more tax. Same with M-Sport and AMG, tax the ego-badges.
Simple ideas are often the best.
Numeric said:
tr3a said:
Here's an idea.
In a country where 1in 5 people are at or below the poverty line, how about taxing ego car plates? If you can spend money on buying a plate just to stroke your ego, you can afford to contribute to mitigating some of your country's problems. The fewer positions your ego plate has, the more tax you pay. Just two positions? 10x road tax. Three positions: 5x road tax, and so on.
It could be an ego stroking thing in itself: have a short registration, show people you're really doing well, not just for yourself, but also for the country.
Sooo... the first thing to remember is that poverty depending on its measure can be a ratio of wealth. So a certain % of a population would be regarded as being below poverty depending on where that is set. So Liechtenstein has people living below 'a' poverty line, but it's a very relative poverty.In a country where 1in 5 people are at or below the poverty line, how about taxing ego car plates? If you can spend money on buying a plate just to stroke your ego, you can afford to contribute to mitigating some of your country's problems. The fewer positions your ego plate has, the more tax you pay. Just two positions? 10x road tax. Three positions: 5x road tax, and so on.
It could be an ego stroking thing in itself: have a short registration, show people you're really doing well, not just for yourself, but also for the country.
Second, are those you are counting people on benefits? So in income terms someone on benefits will likely be below the poverty line, but do they have their accommodation paid, their bills paid etc. and their earnings are therefore entirely disposable. I'm a long time away from such things now and it may be different today, but tobacco, subscription television and gambling used to see this group as very productive customer sets.
As for a tax the rich mandate? I point out that when Thatcher slashed income tax the tax take increased, it became cheaper to pay the tax then hide the wealth, while we must also not forget that people with higher incomes already pay more tax in everything from direct to indirect taxes, its the lower incomes that don't pay much.
I certainly don't have an answer, the use of a universal income was touted as being one but that seems to have many issues in reality.
Until I read it I was just going to say - "b
ks" as that's what the 1 in 5 statistic is.Terminator X said:
tr3a said:
Here's an idea.
In a country where 1in 5 people are at or below the poverty line, how about taxing ego car plates? If you can spend money on buying a plate just to stroke your ego, you can afford to contribute to mitigating some of your country's problems. The fewer positions your ego plate has, the more tax you pay. Just two positions? 10x road tax. Three positions: 5x road tax, and so on.
It could be an ego stroking thing in itself: have a short registration, show people you're really doing well, not just for yourself, but also for the country.
Perhaps if you'd worked harder at school ...In a country where 1in 5 people are at or below the poverty line, how about taxing ego car plates? If you can spend money on buying a plate just to stroke your ego, you can afford to contribute to mitigating some of your country's problems. The fewer positions your ego plate has, the more tax you pay. Just two positions? 10x road tax. Three positions: 5x road tax, and so on.
It could be an ego stroking thing in itself: have a short registration, show people you're really doing well, not just for yourself, but also for the country.
TX.
Sir Les?
As for taxing plates, deference or self interest always find the exception. Charge an ego tax on plates sold on instead of a slap.
Even better encourage a society where massive ego's, wafeur thin self confidence and massive entitlement are seen as a bit pathetic which and of course they are.
As for taxing plates, deference or self interest always find the exception. Charge an ego tax on plates sold on instead of a slap.
Even better encourage a society where massive ego's, wafeur thin self confidence and massive entitlement are seen as a bit pathetic which and of course they are.
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