construction and design create jobs, then operations require jobs, business profits are taxed, then you have hypothetical benefits of better connectivity. All this is taxed and could be spent on your favourite idea - Iβd like better hospice care.
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Ah bless, you think international corporations pay tax in the UK.
jan 30, 2025, 2:20 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
Corporation tax is one of the largest tax income streams. You should care about this.
jan 31, 2025, 12:39 am β’ 0 0 β’ view
Why are you taken in by the lie that GDP growth benefits ordinary people? When governments only use the public purse to commit acts of vandalism like Heathrow and HS2?
jan 31, 2025, 7:07 am β’ 0 0 β’ view
I do not understand how your against Heathrow and HS2 both on environmental grounds. Do you know HS2 is mostly about carrying freight ? Which means less vehicles on the road ?
jan 31, 2025, 9:28 am β’ 0 0 β’ view
Do you think flora and fauna are cartoon characters?
jan 31, 2025, 10:25 am β’ 0 0 β’ view
I donβt think you know what youβre talking about. Would you like Β£10,000 per year more? The French, Germans, and Americans are richer than us. The French use their money to have better worker protections and more free time. Investments into infrastructure is how we become wealthier.
jan 31, 2025, 9:26 am β’ 0 0 β’ view
What, you think that after decades of decline, and leaving the worlds most successful trading bloc, building an environmentally catastrophic runway will suddenly put Β£10k pa in all our pockets? Give your head a wobble son
jan 31, 2025, 10:24 am β’ 0 0 β’ view
Then they should raise the rate and leave their grubby hands off Heathrow which has suffered enough
jan 31, 2025, 7:04 am β’ 0 0 β’ view
You can construct things that don't fuck up the environment and ruin the lives of thousands of Londoners. It's 2025, long-haul flights are a blight not a benefit.
jan 29, 2025, 8:52 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
every person in the country objects to things being built near them. Itβs big part of the reason the French and Germans are Β£10,000 quid better off than us. We have to make money.
jan 30, 2025, 10:28 am β’ 0 0 β’ view
How will a third runway make money for the treasury? Like everything else in rip-off Britain it will be for the benefit of off-shore private capital.
jan 30, 2025, 2:19 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
Every business with employees makes money for the treasury.
jan 31, 2025, 12:57 am β’ 0 0 β’ view
Humans are just drones to work to finance the government then? While the world burns and the earth dies? What good will money be when the biosphere collapses?
jan 31, 2025, 7:13 am β’ 0 0 β’ view
And how does that help the poor or even the squeezed middle?
jan 31, 2025, 7:03 am β’ 0 0 β’ view
Poor people need good jobs.
jan 31, 2025, 9:30 am β’ 0 0 β’ view
Yes, and expanding Heathrow will produce mainly minimum wage jobs at huge cost to the environment
jan 31, 2025, 10:27 am β’ 0 0 β’ view