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Originally posted by Elshambles View PostSPOILER
and/or
SPOILERairport, lol
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Originally posted by TheDrunkenOne View Postlinks are so much like my life, offer up the joy only to find you have to go visit somewhere else and not bother going there cause you cant be arsedNo beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity, but I know none, therefore am no beast.
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Originally posted by CHD View PostMarriage summed up?X can be anything, any number, that is what’s CRAZY about X.
Because X doesn’t roll like that, because X can’t be pinned down!
$ Free Travel Credit with Airbnb $
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Originally posted by MrsFlushdraw View PostMorning BBV. I suppose it is time to check out of here for a couple of months? I don't want to get excited about a few pages to find it's all talk of the ruggers!
In other news, wtf were the inventors of Sponge Bob Squarepants on? Utterly bananas. Kids seem to be accept the basic premise as completely valid though."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Broken sleep, poor enough food choices plus overeating leads to one hell of a gym beat down. Serious pain ahead for the next 12 months...couch, rugby and a baby sleeping on top of me for the rest of today.‘IF YOU had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.” Genghis Khan
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Originally posted by Zod View PostGood night m8's?
Derek Davis crew 4 lyfe."I can’t find anyone who agrees with what I write or think these days, so I guess I must be getting closer to the truth." - Hunter S. Thompson
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View PostElection talk incoming too.
In other news, wtf were the inventors of Sponge Bob Squarepants on? Utterly bananas. Kids seem to be accept the basic premise as completely valid though.
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Originally posted by V for Vendetta View PostI reckon after 12 months I'll have just stopped trying!!
All this so I can be allowed to watch the Irish game later.
Our fathers didn't know how good they had it."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Dice75 View PostWhat you reckon on the chances of them jacking the Inheritance tax back up to a half milly for family homes?
But yeah, election year yada yada - although I doubt inheritance tax is high on the list of voter's concerns."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View PostI hope they don't. I think inheritance taxes should be higher if anything. Spunk it before you croak imo.
But yeah, election year yada yada - although I doubt inheritance tax is high on the list of voter's concerns.
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Originally posted by Dice75 View PostThat's because people are quite short-sighted. Then suddenly they are hit with a €100k + Tax bill and shit gets real. Anyone in the 30+ age bracket should have a vested interest.
Boo fucking hoo."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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I think my enthusiasm for inheritance tax is due to the amount of people I know in their 40s and 50s who are sitting around, doing fuck all in life, and, there is no nice way to say this, waiting for their parents to die.
Such people deserve to be hit with a big tax bill.imo."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Two beggars are sitting side by side on a street in Rome , Italy . One has a Cross in front of him; the other one is holding the Star of David.
Many people go by, look at both beggars, but only put money into the hat of the beggar sitting behind the Cross.
The Pope comes by. He stops to watch the throngs of people giving money to the beggar who holds the Cross while none give to the beggar holding the Star of David.
Finally, the Pope approaches the beggar with the Star of David and says, "My poor fellow, don't you understand? This is a Catholic country; this city is the seat of Catholicism. People aren't going to give you money if you sit there with a Star of David in front of you, especially when you're sitting beside a beggar who is holding a Cross. In fact, they would probably give more money to him just out of spite."
The beggar with the Star of David listened to the Pope, smiled, and turned to the beggar with the Cross and said, "Moishe, look who's trying to teach the Goldstein brothers about marketing!"This too shall pass.
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View PostI think my enthusiasm for inheritance tax is due to the amount of people I know in their 40s and 50s who are sitting around, doing fuck all in life, and, there is no nice way to say this, waiting for their parents to die.
Such people deserve to be hit with a big tax bill.imo.
I asked her to compare our lifestyles and asked did she really think I'd outlive her
Brought quite the response! She then brought it up with my sister who then pointed out that she would probably outlive both her kids
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Originally posted by V for Vendetta View PostI reckon after 12 months I'll have just stopped trying!!
Then when you let him free he tries to walk like a drunken monkey so you have to follow him around to make sure he doesn't kill himself.
Fun times, enjoy.Originally posted by ArmaniJeansI like this heat - some proper music innit.
None of the 'black disabled lesbian warbling backwards' stuff that the other players inflicted on me.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostWhile its all about to be crudely (but happily) ripped away from us, it gets vastly easier. We now have the kid of 4 trained to get up on a Sat / Sun by herself, help herself to a bit of food from the fridge, and then open the laptop and start Netflix. Compared to that first year of just constant tiredness...Originally posted by ArmaniJeansI like this heat - some proper music innit.
None of the 'black disabled lesbian warbling backwards' stuff that the other players inflicted on me.
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Originally posted by Jibzzzz View PostOnly catching up on emails now, I see I got my one plus invite and has expired
Has anyone got one plus two yet?
Originally posted by hotspur View PostI caught something in the Fringe festival that may interest you as a photographer, it was enjoyable (ends tomorrow). He takes 36 shots of (mostly) people over 12 seconds and puts them in a flipbook.
http://www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats_on/...its-in-motion/
Originally posted by Jibzzzz View PostLink? Cant find on KAT..."you raise, i kill you" El Tren :{)
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostThe standard academic approach on potentially contentious issues is to have as many academic takes as there are opinions.
Personally agree with your perspective.
Inheritance is largely pointless now anyway. Used to be grand when your parents were fecking off to the far beyond in their mid-fifties, but now medicine has ruined that with everyone sticking around much longer. Hard to see how anyone benefits from an inheritance received at, say, the age of 60. Except maybe a sunny resort in Spain where you are going to spend your newfound wealth.
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Originally posted by shano_88 View PostHe hasn't been sent off since 2012,hes a pretty amazing wum tbf.Profit before people.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostThe issue is without inheritance tax you end up with greater social inequality. People can pass on their social status through inheritance (as social status and cash are quite linked), which widens the gap between the haves and the have-nots (like you, and me).
The issue is that you then end up with you as a have-not, not having the cushion of financial wealth that another family has with which they can fund their kids getting ahead in life. And its fairly well established that cash helps kids get ahead in life.
Inheritance tax recycles some of that cash towards evening the playing field.
We haven't really had this issue in Ireland up until now, because we haven't had enough generations with disposable wealth to pass on to generate inequality, but you can see from the UK (England, specifically) the effect that it has. Your kid is essentially fcked if you can't pay for them to get into a good school - through fees or grinds - or beg them into a religious school.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostThe issue is without inheritance tax you end up with greater social inequality. People can pass on their social status through inheritance (as social status and cash are quite linked), which widens the gap between the haves and the have-nots (like you, and me).
The issue is that you then end up with you as a have-not, not having the cushion of financial wealth that another family has with which they can fund their kids getting ahead in life. And its fairly well established that cash helps kids get ahead in life.
Inheritance tax recycles some of that cash towards evening the playing field.
We haven't really had this issue in Ireland up until now, because we haven't had enough generations with disposable wealth to pass on to generate inequality, but you can see from the UK (England, specifically) the effect that it has. Your kid is essentially fcked if you can't pay for them to get into a good school - through fees or grinds - or beg them into a religious school.
Inheritance tax is up there with stamp duty (of previous times anyhow) and DIRT as the most annoying of taxes to me where you have to pay the government for providing exactly no services for the tax. I have no issues paying taxes where there is a perceived return of some kind, either to me as an individual through available services or else to society, and I don't include the huge hole of social welfare that most of it goes into as enough of a return in either of those ways.
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Low/zero inheritance taxes also repreeent an opportunity cost as they can act as a disincentive for those lucky enough to have a large inheritance coming their way.
I know one guy in his early fifties who is coasting through life, doing the absolute bare minimum because he stands to inherit several millions when, in his own words, 'the old lady croaks it'. Charming.
Why would you want a system that rewards such behaviour?Last edited by Raoul Duke III; 19-09-15, 13:29."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostYeah, that's a problem in my opinion.
Your absolutely right with all the above. Its the bigger social issue though - there needs to be some tax on wealth to maintain some level of social equality.
Imagine a scenario where there is no inheritance tax or DIRT. Someone inherits an amount of money that allows them to earn 100k a year interest on it. They will get to benefit from most things the government funds, but will not pay anything towards it.
By contrast, the person who works and earns 100k a year, will pay about 40k to fund those services.
The key thing though isn't the above, its the clear fact that inherited wealth increases social inequality.
I know it's an impossible area to reform and it won't happen, especially now we are in a cycle of increases and reversed cuts if anything, but it's really annoying. The sacred cows of not means testing child benefit or pensions (even with a fairly generous threshold) are the obvious frustrations, and of they reformed those and increased tax breaks or grants for childcare or increased medical services for the elderly, everyone would be better off.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostYeah, that's a problem in my opinion.
Your absolutely right with all the above. Its the bigger social issue though - there needs to be some tax on wealth to maintain some level of social equality.
Imagine a scenario where there is no inheritance tax or DIRT. Someone inherits an amount of money that allows them to earn 100k a year interest on it. They will get to benefit from most things the government funds, but will not pay anything towards it.
By contrast, the person who works and earns 100k a year, will pay about 40k to fund those services.
The key thing though isn't the above, its the clear fact that inherited wealth increases social inequality.
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