What is it with people who see tax as the answer to everything?
Olivia Colman and Imelda Staunton are among dozens of high-profile artists calling for a levy on tech devices to help boost the creative industries battling to recover from the effects of the pandemic.
Pretty much every industry has suffered. I have lost money despite being able to claim three tranches of the SEISS – that is, they gave me back some of my own money which will be taken back at a later stage when they tax me on it. I don’t believe that taxes should be raised to recoup that money as we are all in the same boat. Well, most of us are. How dare Colman and her colleagues dare to presume that we should be forced to pay for them? They already get paid far more than the average television viewer, yet once more we have these people presuming that they should be funded through taxation. The arts should be completely self sufficient. If they can’t raise enough money from the sales of their output, well too bad. Do what I did for a while and go stacking shelves in the local supermarket.
Organisers behind the proposal say the Smart Fund could raise up to £300m a year from payments of between 1% and 3% of the sales value of gadgets including mobile phones, laptops and PCs.
The money generated would be paid into a central fund which would be used to “fairly reward creators and performers in making a living from their content,” they say, and boost the wider economy.
No, no and thrice no.
Have you seen the latest proposed tax the scum have come up with – a salt and sugar tax? So, when it comes to something such as soft drinks, they will, in effect, be taxed three times. First, VAT. Then, the existing sugar tax. And finally, this new salt and sugar tax. What a bunch of bastards. Fuck them. Fuck them all to hell.
(Doris has said he is opposed to a salt and sugar tax. This ‘opposition’ is worthless. All it means is that the lying twat will introduce such a tax anyway in a couple of years.)
Well, he also said no vaccination passports, didn’t he?
In UK we already pay a gadget tax.
It called a TV Tax. And the luvvies already get a good cut of it.
Its all right for these luvies. They are stinking rich. They should butt out of our lives. Similarly the pricks always telling us what to drink and eat and not to enjoy a cig.
Using the word fair is for people with a mental age of 12. Or lower.
Notwithstanding the fact that the money wouldn’t be generated but taken by implied force, and the economy wouldn’t benefit as it would only be a transfer from taxpayers to those people.
In effect, they want the state to steal some of our time on earth (the only thing we really have and it is finite) to benefit themselves. They should be hanging from lampposts.
“The money generated would be paid into a central fund which would be used to “fairly reward creators and performers in making a living from their content,” they say, and boost the wider economy.”
Until somebody realises that this is a hypothecated tax, which successive Chancers of the Exchequer have resisted, and decide that it should go into the general taxation pot. Hey Presto – a new tax. Just what we need.
What “fairly reward creators and performers in making a living from their content,” means is to pay yet more money to successful artists whilst the struggling will continue to struggle. There may even be sinecure opportunities for those who’s career tanked a long time ago but have the right bien pensent credentials.
I suggest a tax on theatre tickets in order to raise money for retired bald guys with big noses.
Why not indeed?