Where The Hell Does One Put This?

[Perry]

Other Investments?
World in General?
Forum Funnies?

Sir Stephen Tindall among 83 millionaires wanting to raise taxes on the wealthy
Jul 14 2020

Businessman and philanthropist Sir Stephen Tindall is among the world's richest people urging governments to raise taxes on the rich, as the world grapples with the economic impact of Covid-19. Tindall is one of 83 millionaires who signed an open letter which said ?today, we, the undersigned millionaires, ask our governments to raise taxes on people like us. Immediately. Substantially. Permanently?. "As Covid-19 strikes the world, millionaires like us have a critical role to play in healing our world," it says.

So please. Tax us. Tax us. Tax us. It is the right choice. It is the only choice.

Did anyone notice that Cur Tinsell already pays tax? Probably not.

The Junkhouse founder (where everyone gets some garbage) follows the path of a few other crocodile tear-jerkers. The screw-you (TradeMe) founder comes to mind.

The only reason such people suggest what they do is because:
1) It makes them look good;
2) It will not financially disadvantage them in the slightest.

Loosely speaking, the only reason such people got in to the positions of wealth which they have is because of profound stupidity and malfeasance of moronic politicians and the unfathomable, myopic self-inflicted ignorance of those who voted for the aforesaid.

E.g. Leaving aside the seemingly 'good' that gatesby and microcrapt have done in making computer tech available to the masses, has anyone ever calculated the financial losses incurred as a consequences of the release of their buggy and hack-prone software?

My problem (one of many) is that I'm a lay student of economics. My studies have equipped me to realise that almost all e-con-o-mists are indeed soothsayers, after-the-fact. I.e. People who will tell you why something happened after it happened, disguised as a prediction.

I wonder if Shammy and the other wilfully ignorant will 'weigh in' on this non-story?

Cur Tinsell: you and the rest of your ilk are "full of it." But I don't blame you. No. I blame the cranially devoid (aka woodenheads) for allowing you to do what you've done. In your case: export the jobs of thousands of kiwis to chairman Mao's mates.

Hello? Is there anyone there? Anyone awake?

[donna]

The thing is the Green Party's 'wealth' tax is aiming too low i.e. not at really wealthy people. They're aiming at the people who are 'wage slaves' not the big business owners and Entrepreneurs. The cost to try and catch the mega rich is prohibitive and time consuming hence aim low and you can at least say you've done the best you can at catching anyone trying to be financially independent.

[Perry]

Sounding Brass

Now here's a radical idea . . .

Miss Mullins, take a letter.

Address it to the:
Prime Minister
Parliament Buildings
Wellington

Dear socialist Cindy

With this letter I've included a cheque for ten million dollars, payable to the Inland Revenue Dept., to assist the country in recovering from the Covid-19 lock down.

I'm encouraging a number of other rich-lister friends to do the same.

Please keep my contribution confidential.

Your friend
Stephen

There are certain biblical passages about noisy benefactors.

[donna]

Distributing wealth like a Robin Hood - taking from the wealthy and giving it to poor does not make the poor more financially astute, or even interested in money. All it does is give them the opportunity to go on a spending spree and this is what Governments want to boost the economy. It's the wage slaves and beneficiaries who love spending money. Give it to them and they will get rid of it as quickly as possible.

The rich are the opposite hence Trump giving a tax break to the wealthy on the premise that it would trickle down was a joke.

cheers,

Donna

[Frezzinghot]

The thing is the Green Party's 'wealth' tax is aiming too low i.e. not at really wealthy people. They're aiming at the people who are 'wage slaves' not the big business owners and Entrepreneurs. The cost to try and catch the mega rich is prohibitive and time consuming hence aim low and you can at least say you've done the best you can at catching anyone trying to be financially independent.

The middle class, now the working poor.

[Perry]

The middle class, now the working poor.

The "middle class" were dispensed with many years ago.

Serfdom (slaves) takes many forms.

[McDuck]

The wealthy have been redistributing their wealth for many years.
Not all, but many.

Andrew Carnegie (1835?1919), being a great example.

He was worried, like most of us, that the very poor, were very weak.
Weak of mind, and weak of conviction, and weak of opportunity.

The possibility that good money would be wasted on bad habits presented a big problem.
So he sought ways to give culture and education, to temper the weaknesses.

But there is another evil creature.
A senseless leviathan.
The modern Corporation.

It has no great brain (like Anew Carnegie), sitting atop its body.
It moves and consumes senseless.

Cunning, it hides among the legal definitions that first gave it birth.
It moves assets to those who have sold their souls to aid it's journey.

Can an imaginary entity have morals and act wisely?
Of course not.
It's impossible, it's only a thin fantasy of life, lacking all connection to real things.

Should it be taxed?.
probably yes.

Will it attack?
Probably yes.

Can it be tamed or tricked?
Of course, you just need to know what moves it.

[donna]

Did you see Apple Inc has been let off 13Billion Euros

cheers,

Donna

[Perry]

Crapple, Microcrapt, Faecesbook, Shitsagram, Pootube, Gooble et al.

The new breed of cyber terrorists.

Spineless gummints are powerless against them, no matter what they say to the contrary.

Somewhere, there must be an Irish dictionary of legal terms.

Something along the lines of their dictionary of medical terms:

The Irish Guide to medical terms & their meanings
Acute - Good looking nurse
Anti-Body - Against everyone
Aorta - Phoning in a pizza
Artery - The study of painting
Bacteria - Back door to a cafeteria
Barium - What doctors do when treatment fails
Benign - What you are after you?re eight
Bowel - A letter like A, E, I, O, U
Caesarean section - A district in Rome
Cancer - Postpone
Cardiology - Advanced study of poker playing
Cat scan - Searching for kitty
Cauterise - Made eye contact with her
Chronic - Long cartoon book
Colic - A sheep dog
Coma - A punctuation mark
Congenital - Friendly
Contusion - Wrong diagnosis
Coronary - Horse race description
Corpuscle - Mortuary bouncer
D & C - Where Washington is
Dilate - To live long
Duodenal - Strike a bargain at the market
Enema - Not a friend
Fester - Quicker than others
Fibula - Small lie
Forceps - Double blind date
Genes - Blue denim slacks
Genital - Not jewish
GI series - Soldier ball game
Grippe - Suitcase
Hangnail - Coat hook
Haemorrhoid - Male From outer space
Herpes - What women do in the Ladies Room
High colonic - Jewish religious holiday
Hormone - What a prostitute does when she doesn't get paid
Impotent - Distinguished, well known
Inpatient - Tired of waiting
Iris - Type of flower
Labour pain - Getting hurt at work
Lumbar - Piece of Wood
Medical staff - Doctor's cane
Morbid - Higher offer
Morgue - Mindy?s friend
Minor Operation - Digging coal
Nitrate - Cheaper than day rate
Node - Well aware of
Outpatient - Person who fainted
Oesophagus - Place to store dead people
Pap smear - Fatherhood test
Pelvis - Cousin of Elvis
Post operative - Letter carrier
Prostate - Flat on your back
Paralyse - Two far-fetched stories
Paramedics - Twin doctors
Pharmacist - Agricultural labourer
Posterior - Those who come later
Protein - In favour of young people
Pupil - Classmate
Recovery room - Place to do upholstery
Rectum - Damn near killed 'im
Rheumatic - Amorous
Secretion - Hiding something
Saline - What you do on your boyfriend's boat
Scalpel - Body parts store
Seizure - A Roman Emperor
Splint - Race for fast gallopers
Staff - Doctor's cane
Stethoscope - Submarine peep-hole
Surgery - Doctor who's been knighted
Swab - Exchange organs
Tablet - A small table
Terminal illness - Getting sick at airport
Tibia - Country in North Africa
Transfusion - Electrical gadget to save batteries
Transplant - Way to move patient to another ward
Tumour - More than one more
Urine - Opposite to you're out
Varicose - Nearby
Vein - Conceited

[McDuck]

..

Somewhere, there must be an Irish dictionary of legal terms.

Something along the lines of their dictionary of medical terms:

That might be racist.
Irish lives matter.
No, I'm not Irish.

Apart from that,
I don't get the misspelling of names thing?

Is it like the TRUMP kung-flu thing?

They say different people have different styles of humor.

[Wayne]

Apart from that,
I don't get the misspelling of names thing?

Is it like the TRUMP kung-flu thing?

They say different people have different styles of humor.

Some people think it is clever.
Bullies do it all the time (Trump).
Ignorant people do it too (Trump again) as it is about as far as their thinking goes.

Some people don't realise how silly it makes them look.

[Perry]

Interesting that McCluck spells humour in USAnglish. (U need to humor him?)

It may not be mis-spelling. It may be satire.

Some can tell the difference.

Some can't.

But we stray from the topic.

Cur Tinsell and the widow's mite comes to mind.

[McDuck]

Interesting that McCluck spells humour in USAnglish. (U need to humor him?)

It may not be mis-spelling. It may be satire.

Some can tell the difference.

Some can't.

But we stray from the topic.

Cur Tinsell and the widow's mite comes to mind.

Why thank you for asking.

Sometimes the computer auto corrects words to US spelling.
Sometimes I make typos.
Sometimes I like the sound of the American spelling.
And since the internet has no location, I don't feel arrogant enough to force English spelling on another country.

How can you not already know this Peewee?

Kidding, just showing you how easy that shot is.

[McDuck]

Interesting that McCluck spells humour in USAnglish. (U need to humor him?)

It may not be mis-spelling. It may be satire.

Some can tell the difference.

Some can't.

But we stray from the topic.

Cur Tinsell and the widow's mite comes to mind.

Is the alternate spelling a pre 1960's sort of humor?

Some of that pre 60's stuff works still.

The Marks brothers physical slapstick antics are funny.
(but only they can pull it off).

Groucho Marx was also very funny with the words.

and Shakespeare , from much earlier times, was very funny with the words.

I'm just guessing you need to deliver the lines personally in your case.
The internet must lose the subtle humor.

Personally, the stuff that makes me laugh is the human nature type humour.

A communist and a capitalist go into a bar.
The communist says to the capitalist, in my world I would share your BMW and you would share my Porsche.
The capitalist says, so in your world, I could have half your glass of beer then?
No, replies the communist.
Why not? questions the capitalist.
Because, replies the communist, I actually do have a glass of beer.