Comments on: A Pint of Bitter: Taxing, Cutting and Measuring – The State of Britain’s Finances http://www.anglotopia.net/british-identity/politics/a-pint-of-bitter-taxing-cutting-and-measuring-the-state-of-britains-finances/ The Website for People Who Love Britain - Anglophiles Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:01:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Carl http://www.anglotopia.net/british-identity/politics/a-pint-of-bitter-taxing-cutting-and-measuring-the-state-of-britains-finances/#comment-16007 Carl Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:04:11 +0000 http://www.anglotopia.net/?p=4866#comment-16007 I say "let them go" too. These people never mention the indirect benefits they get from living here - the schools (many of which, in rich areas of London, are excellent and free), shops, restaurants and theatre they enjoy, the availability of the NHS to cover all their and their children's medical needs regardless of cost (that's still valuable even if you're very rich: how much does it cost to insure a child with a rare condition, I wonder?), the relatively low crime rate, proximity to other nice places like Paris and so on. So I doubt many of them will go - but we'd be better off if more did. I say “let them go” too. These people never mention the indirect benefits they get from living here – the schools (many of which, in rich areas of London, are excellent and free), shops, restaurants and theatre they enjoy, the availability of the NHS to cover all their and their children’s medical needs regardless of cost (that’s still valuable even if you’re very rich: how much does it cost to insure a child with a rare condition, I wonder?), the relatively low crime rate, proximity to other nice places like Paris and so on.

So I doubt many of them will go – but we’d be better off if more did.

]]> By: jonathan http://www.anglotopia.net/british-identity/politics/a-pint-of-bitter-taxing-cutting-and-measuring-the-state-of-britains-finances/#comment-16002 jonathan Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:02:50 +0000 http://www.anglotopia.net/?p=4866#comment-16002 If they want to leave London for greener pastures I say bloody well let them and make room for people like me who actually want to live in Britain. Washington would do well to follow a similar plan to tax bonuses, then these people won't have anywhere to hide and evade tax. If they want to leave London for greener pastures I say bloody well let them and make room for people like me who actually want to live in Britain.

Washington would do well to follow a similar plan to tax bonuses, then these people won’t have anywhere to hide and evade tax.

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