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I very much agree, but see this answer. .

See this answer. .

Exactly what I meant in my earlier comment on that subject. But until we successfully answer that problem, we'll need compromises to survive. The Swedes have achieved something approaching the ideal, but that doesn't appear to have been due to a specific system we could copy. Perhaps it's more...

Clearly I'm not saying that or being selective, merely that overall as a society we need to live within our means. That's not a 19th century answer, it's just commonsense. .

But what taxation system ensures all pay their fair dues in cash or kind? To date it's been beyond human wit to devise any that works, short of a more draconian approach as Shemozzle has observed earlier. .

Indeed, I've long been arguing that we need to aim for a lower standard of living to get to living within our means. A very effective way to achieve that is with large scale immigration bringing in lower cost workers, thus depressing market wage rates. We are already on the right lines with...

True, but my argument wasn't ethically based. We the consumers pay the bills no matter which way these matters are organised. The morality of company behaviour is very different of course, but morality is difficult to legislate for. .

Yes, morally it does, but for the consumer on the end of the chain, it makes little difference. In our system we foot the bills. Corporation tax could be replaced by a tax at source on outgoing products or services, like advance VAT without any claim back, but still it ends up on what we pay. .

Individually yes, but it's still consumers somewhere footing the bills. .

It really doesn't matter if companies pay corporation tax or not, That fact is the shareholders dont pay it, and a company doesn't pay since their income is only what their customers pay for their products or services. Therefore that corporation tax is part of what their customers pay them, in...

As said, you don't need to disturb or change any of the wiring, but you would need to open the shrink wrap enough to get at where the two wires are joined onto the cellpack. That's what gets swapped, just the cellpack, the two wires rejoined onto the new one and the thermistor reinserted to...

Maybe a way forward now is to have a multiple choice referendum on what sort of Brexit we want; Norway style close to the EU. Swiss style, more detached but still dependent. Fully detached but seeking trade agreements with the EU as well as others. Independent trading on WTA rules. And of...

Basically ok Sam, just 9 charged cells in series, should spin the wheel and allow you to check the throttle operates. .

In that sense yes, but as a country we'd suffer if we shut down the tax advantages of the thousands of companies using our Crown Protectorate Tax Havens. If the US government puts the political boot in just for Apple, imagine the reaction to hurting huge numbers of their corporations. Compared...

It's not the fines that's upsetting us, they are not liable under diplomatic law. It's the congestion charge for entering the central zone, which is a charge for using the roads in that area, basically a toll. There is no diplomatic immunity for that and they should pay. When their people...

Yes, just a fit young man, I could and did do the same even in my 60s before adopting e-power for the first time at 67 to help with heavy trailer pulling. These days there are very large numbers of London cycle commuters keeping up 20 mph during long commutes, and they aren't all very young...

No, they still refuse to pay Tom. .

Our own guilt prevents it, sheltering as we do so many Crown Protectorates, a posh name for tax havens. The Virgin Islands, The Isle of Man and The Channel Islands for example. Shutting that lot down would result in more enemies than we could survive. Just look at the way the US government...

After the last general election result he's somehow managed to snatch personal failure and defeat from personal success and victory. History will not treat him kindly. .

So we'll end up with some sort of middle of the road compromise that everyone will be unhappy with. That will be Britain back to how it's been from the start of the 1970s through to the referendum, a country at war with itself. Ironically, the only thing that has historically corrected that...