On 08/07/2017 11:53, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
On 08/07/17 09:54, Huge wrote:
On 2017-07-07, Adrian Caspersz wrote:

People found that believe and peddle in this clearly meaningless
twaddle, should be forced to surrender any gained school or college
examination certificates; assessed as a high insurance risk; not to have
responsibility for raising or teaching others; and, (importantly) should
be disbarred from voting in elections or taking any employment funded by
the state.

The people who peddle it may well be aware that it's nonsense.

Then that's not too far from fraud, and unless it (at sellers expense)
can be explained to be a legit entrepreneurial concern, they should
shoulder / pass on a higher tax rate.


We should thus have three tax bands.

- Fuel/Food/Necessities tax,
- Luxuries tax (VAT)

The problem with this is defining what a luxury is.


Nope, luxury is already defined in something requiring the application
of VAT. Tolley's tax guide is comprehensive - things that are fairly
mundane like biscuits, but there ye go.

Nope, the _vanity_ tax bracket is what I'm suggesting (and others too,
it's an interesting google..)

It can encompass the whole range of bling that one uses only as an "I
hav excess!" status definer that serves absolutely no other real purpose
other than to ridiculously dry the planet up of limited resources, and
increase the temptations of crime. And add to that, things of paranormal
significance.


Indeed. Nice little article on the topic:

http://standpointmag.co.uk/counterpoints-march-2017-john-torode-thorstein-veblen-leisure-class-conspicious-consumption-trump

The government (and us standard tax payers) should then be able to claw
back money from that without it all disappearing into the pockets of
shysters ...


I don't know. Really, I can't get too worked up about opportunists
fleecing the obscenely rich and gullible.

--
Cheers, Rob

In article , Huge
writes:

On 2017-07-07, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
On 07/07/17 13:04, Huge wrote:
On 2017-07-07, Richard Jones wrote:

Makes 'running in' speaker cables seem positively sane!

Right up there with this cack;

http://www.machinadynamica.com/machina31.htm


People found that believe and peddle in this clearly meaningless
twaddle, should be forced to surrender any gained school or college
examination certificates; assessed as a high insurance risk; not to have
responsibility for raising or teaching others; and, (importantly) should
be disbarred from voting in elections or taking any employment funded by
the state.

The people who peddle it may well be aware that it's nonsense.

I've always assumed that Machina Dynamica is satire but they don't
mind taking money off the most stupid. If you look at their home page,
you'll see an old SF book cover there - I'm sure they had said covers
sprinkled liberally throughout when I first encountered the site.

--
Mike Fleming