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Lets be honest...every decent person in the world hates mass murdering dictators. There has been no bigger mass murder in world history than Mao.
Let's be honest, the West hates Mao because he liberated Chinese people, united the country, and made it impossible to be a Western puppet.
Moreover, he inspired more Asian, African, and Latin American people's anti-colonial and anti-imperialist movements. The West slanders any leader who refuses to obey them.
Mao was a great strategist, revolutionist, thinker, writer and leader. Long live the great unity of the people of the world!💪
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○ Dijo una vez Margaret Thatcher: “El derecho de un hombre a trabajar como quiera, a gastar lo que gana, a poseer propiedades y a tener al Estado como servidor y no como amo son la esencia de una economía libre, y sobre esa libertad dependen todas nuestras otras libertades.”
Only the US is embargoing Cuba, Cuba is free to trade with pretty much every other country on Earth but it is still dirt poor. I wonder why. There was me thinking that Mises Institute was supposed to stand up for free market capitalism.
Cuba’s economy is collapsing in large part because the US government is engaged in illegal and immoral economic warfare against it. | Birsen Filip
mises.org/mises-wire/america…
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Pensions will be the death of our civilisation. They are unsustainable and sucking funds out of every other essential public service.
It’s the root cause behind the protests and many of our economic and societal malaises. And it’s also the one no one wants to fix. The moment a politician decides to blow up the pension pyramid scheme it’s the moment their career ends.
We need a youth revolution that circumvents boomer’s electoral domination and imposes pension reform. It’s not like they can revolt back from their retirement homes.
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I’ve lived through 14/15 different prime ministers from labour and Tories, and every single one of them have done nothing for me or my family
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Taking home less than half your wage should never, ever be justified.
You should never have to work for the state more than you work for yourself.
I read a piece in the FT this week about the price of being middle class in Britain now and it said a couple earning £436,000 combined take home £216,000. That’s a crazy amount of tax, and it doesn't include VAT on purchases, council tax, stamp duty or other taxes (I think does include pension contributions). I can’t stop thinking about it.
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Ce n'est pourtant pas compliqué.
Nous avons un voisin 🇨🇭 qui est le pays le plus riche du monde alors qu'ils ont 0 ressources naturelles, 0 accès à la mer, 0 cohésion linguistique, 0 projection militaire ou géopolitique ET que le pays est composé de 70% de montagnes.
Il suffirait de copier ce qu'ils font.
Je ne sais pas, merde.
Soyez moins cons.
This chart of real household disposable income is quite telling. The UK economy has been effectively stagnant since 2008 financial crisis. Pretty decent growth before then but has been stuck in a pit of productivity and wage stagnation ever since.
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Taiwan and South Korea achieved higher economic growth and life expectancy gains without anyone committing mass murder.
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Increased tax on Rental income will hit Renters.
An extra 4% for all my tenants, means nearly half of all the rent they pay now goes to the government
Not the Landlord who paid for the house, maintains it and takes all the risk
@cristo_radio @KirstieMAllsopp @GBNEWS
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If you want to set up a hospitality business in the UK with just 3 employees you now have to find £100k. Every year. Just for wages.
Worth mentioning
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Massive marginal tax rates for pensioners with incomes just above the state pension.
HOW NEW STATE PENSION TAX ALLOWANCE WILL WORK:
From April 2027, if your total annual income is not more than full new State Pension (£13,037/yr) you will not pay tax. So this is £94 extra tax free.
If your total income is slightly higher then for every £3 you earn above, you lose £1 of this extra allowance.
So if you earn £13,186 (£150 above) you would get a 'Pension Tax Allowance' meaning you pay £44ish less tax than otherwise (ie £94 minus £50)
So by total income of £13,319 you won't receive any extra allowance. HMRC will automatically apply this allowance you will not need to claim it.
I will explain better on my show tomorrow. Rushing this now #budget2026
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By 2030 Britain is on course to spend half a TRILLION pounds on welfare.
There is no world in which this is sustainable, especially with zero growth and the current tax structure.
Doom spiral is guaranteed unless something drastically changes. You can’t fight physics and this budget is kicking the can down the road.
The road is running out fast.
🚨 SUMMARY: The OBR forecasts following John Healey's Budget
- Welfare spending will rise to £431.3bn by 2030/31 - an increase of £97.5bn a year in cash terms
- This includes £209.8bn on pensioner benefits, £110.7bn on Universal Credit, £69.6bn on disability benefits, £13.9bn on Child Benefit and £27.2bn on other welfare
- Inflation will peak at 3.75% in early 2027, up from the earlier prediction of 2%
- UK GDP growth will slow from around 1.25% in 2026 to 1% in 2027, before climbing to 1.6% in 2031
- Average UK unemployment will rise to 5.1% across 2026 and 2027
- The Employment Rights Act will "likely" have a negative economic impact because of reduced flexibility and greater uncertainty for businesses
- The landlord tax increases (property income) could contribute to a long-term rise in private rents and discourage landlords from entering the market
- Real household disposable income per person will be around 0.75% lower in 2030-31 than it expected in March 2026
- Higher earnings and frozen tax thresholds will increase income tax and National Insurance receipts by £9bn in 2026-27 and around £8bn on average in subsequent forecast years compared with March
- Net migration is forecast to fall to 120,000 in the year to mid-2026, then gradually rise to 230,000 by the year to mid-2031
- Nominal weekly earnings growth will slow to around 3.5% in 2026, then average roughly 2.25% a year
- Andy Burnham's first-time buyer scheme could raise house prices by increasing demand without enough new homes being built
There needs to be radical planning reform in order for it to make a significant difference to house building. At the moment it is drowing in red tape, high taxes and a discretionary planning system that makes it so easy for NIMBYs to veto.
For all the hate they get, the tobacco industry are a bunch of spineless cowards who refuse to defend their own products and consumers. The ad hominem caricature they have is based on stuff that happened decades ago. It is the anti-smoking puritanical cabal that are more money hungry and disingenous these day. Who have now moved onto advocating for outright prohibition. Yet people still give them a pass because they think their intentions are good.
The government's response to the consultation feedback (covers many areas other than disposables)
gov.uk/government/consultati…
More than half (54%) of tobacco industry-linked responses supported the ban😀
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Putting an end to this would be the easiest win in politics. No more tax rises. Deficit down. GDP up. Popular with the public.
But they can’t do it because of their lunatic, benefits-obsessed backbenchers.
