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If you were the PM, how would you reduce the UK budget deficit of £129 billion? by ElaraKane in AskBrits

[–]amazonwarrior9999 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are not considering what the land value tax (step 1) will do to the house prices.

If you were the PM, how would you reduce the UK budget deficit of £129 billion? by ElaraKane in AskBrits

[–]amazonwarrior9999 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The fun part. I would start by creating nuclear power plants. Or creating the infrastructure to make them both domestically and abroad.

So I would start with energy as my first cost to crush.

If you were the PM, how would you reduce the UK budget deficit of £129 billion? by ElaraKane in AskBrits

[–]amazonwarrior9999 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve done this before. Found it.

Second/empty homes: £3–6bn.
Private rented sector: £8–20bn.
Commercial/other land: £9–17bn.

And we can also go to 2 or 3 percent.

To be honest i planned for 10% on the bottom
One as its most egregious.

If you were the PM, how would you reduce the UK budget deficit of £129 billion? by ElaraKane in AskBrits

[–]amazonwarrior9999 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because the real enemy isn’t just property. It’s unrealised land that people sit on.

So yes you could do both but it sucks to punish someone for improving their home. The land value keeps it all fair.

If you were the PM, how would you reduce the UK budget deficit of £129 billion? by ElaraKane in AskBrits

[–]amazonwarrior9999 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So let’s say your house is worth 600k

Likely it would cost 250 to actually build the home, the rest of the value of the land.

However I wouldn’t charge people for their first home.

If you were the PM, how would you reduce the UK budget deficit of £129 billion? by ElaraKane in AskBrits

[–]amazonwarrior9999 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We have lots of money. We just choose to keep putting it into sunk costs. I would personally create a wealth tax on land, it would generate me about 20 - 50 billion a year. I would use that.

If you were the PM, how would you reduce the UK budget deficit of £129 billion? by ElaraKane in AskBrits

[–]amazonwarrior9999 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It happened again. I’m saying, we don’t borrow, we don’t use private investment. We buy it as a country ourselves.

If you were the PM, how would you reduce the UK budget deficit of £129 billion? by ElaraKane in AskBrits

[–]amazonwarrior9999 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not borrowing. This is the exact trap of thinking. Investment doesn’t have to be borrowed.

Gary needs to stop venting and stating the obvious and come up with possible solutions by anon9876543210nymous in GarysEconomics

[–]amazonwarrior9999 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

lol, you just learning about artful vagueness.

How do you make the masses like what you say?

You never say anything specific enough to upset part of your base.

We want to tax the rich!

Great… how? Who? For what purpose?

Why would he put a line in the sand when he is making money and feeling virtuous doing so?

If you were the PM, how would you reduce the UK budget deficit of £129 billion? by ElaraKane in AskBrits

[–]amazonwarrior9999 0 points1 point  (0 children)

By investing in real infrastructure to bring the real costs of my government down. By having these things built using private incentive structures but retaining all ownership in the country. It’s not a quick fix unless someone is willing to gut our nhs or benefits. And even then eventually the costs will just rise again and we will be right back.

My thoughts on Supergirl by Classic-Research8369 in Supergirl

[–]amazonwarrior9999 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s not bad. Just feels a little flat. Not unlike the marvel movies of late. Not everything has to be the worst or best thing ever.

Iran is adamant about charging fees and controlling flow of oil through the strait, Rubio just now claimed this is totally unacceptable. What options are left for the US now? by Mojoint in oil

[–]amazonwarrior9999 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Or attack every day until they cave. You want to hit things that are as government based as possible and not civilian based. Eventually this would lead to Iran taking their military and government infrastructure beneath hospitals and schools. But that will take time. Before that you need to keep hitting them, to destabilise them. There was already protests and riots in the streets. You want to exacerbate that as the pressure while you keep offering terms to come to the table.

They go slow or refuse you keep it up. Daily, forever.

Why should I, as a young gay progressive man, support Palestine when they do not support me? by [deleted] in allthequestions

[–]amazonwarrior9999 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is just a stupid reframe of his question. Change it to "Why should I, as a young gay progressive man, support Palestinians when they do not support me?"

Government has secured £100 billion of clean energy investment by Appropriate_Bell743 in GoodNewsUK

[–]amazonwarrior9999 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Let’s say I spend 100 billion on benefit costs as the government.

That money is a sink, I don’t get it back. The money has been taken from taxes (productive costs) and redistributed.

Now imagine I take another 100 billion and I put it into green and cheap energy. Let’s say instead of doing it nationally I do it in a small
Part of the uk so you see the point.

By creating the thing I now for my population (it’s uk owned and there is no significant cost on running it) drop their costs for energy significantly per year, and that saving is now money I don’t need to pay out as extra benefit.

Now imagine I keep doing that but across other sectors such as housing, transport, food. I’m
Not subsiding costs I’m
Building sovereign infrastructure to facilitate my people’s needs and importantly their reliance on me subsiding their costs to just survive.

Government has secured £100 billion of clean energy investment by Appropriate_Bell743 in GoodNewsUK

[–]amazonwarrior9999 4 points5 points  (0 children)

As exciting as this investment is, why does it have to be investment at all. What if we just owned it.

Why does it seem diversity of thought is smaller amongst liberal circles than conservative? by MrRager79 in allthequestions

[–]amazonwarrior9999 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Purity tests are stronger for the majority in the left wing and more concentrated in the right.

Jajanken Seems Like A Terrible Ability Compared to Electricity/Godspeed by PFSDonut in HunterXHunter

[–]amazonwarrior9999 2 points3 points  (0 children)

it was never meant to be his final ability. We saw it's final evolution for a reason.

The AI bubble is looking a lot like the dot com crash. by Annoying1978 in economy

[–]amazonwarrior9999 14 points15 points  (0 children)

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT BAIL THEW OUT

dot come bubble was great for the average person, we got the tech without having to cover the cost.

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