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| Inequality is perceived mainly as the working of ethnic - class or race - bias. However, an analysis shows that the root cause is greed operating in hierarchies of politics, law, finance and education. In most instances `ethnic bias' is used to excuse hierarchical greed & corruption.
These tax pages catalog UK's inequality problem in political finance (and `culture'), elsewhere laworjustice pages do the same for policing and courts, where gender and age biases are subsets, schools pages similarly expose education biases, and a morals page examines the problem - ever present, though covert in UK - in hierarchies of churches. |
You can see people who have to rent are worst-off. They're paying 1000% or more, to a fake `property tax'.
Here's why:-
a) Aristocrats and rich agro-industrialists get huge amounts of tax-payers' money in immoral `subsidy' link02 - each taking approximately £20,000 per year from us poor taxpayers. They (less than 1% of population) own most of the land but pay no real property tax. link03
We, the remaining 99% of population, only rent or `buy' about 0.2 acres per family, but are forced to pay huge annual fake `property taxes' (council tax). That's in addition to the 70-80% direct and indirect taxes taken directly and indirectly from our earnings and spending on food and other necessities!
Why don't the rich pay property taxes? Or, conversely, why don't we - renters, houseowners and tenant farmers - get subsidies? See "agro-ind"
[Oct. 2003 a Liberal Democrat MP reveals corrupt "Council Tax" set-up: it asks only half-a-day's earnings from Prime Minister Tony Blair, but rips-off two months' income from an already poor pensioner.]
Summary - Tax-money is confiscated from middle-incomed and
the poor then squandered by corrupt bureaucracy link04 or given to the rich (see Duke of
Westminster).
More details are available in "Who Owns Britain" by Kevin Cahill
Nov. 2001 ISBN 086241 912 3
You can read an outline of "Who Owns Britain" at www.progress.org/revwob.htm
[ Note: Kevin has updated amount of subsidy taken (stolen)
from us by each of the rich - 30 March '02 (R4 - BBC) Kevin said it's now
reached £20,000 pa!]
Britain's Property Tax/Council Tax -
The only possible reason for a banded Council Tax, with a very high minimum payment and a very low maximum payment, is to make the poor pay more tax than the rich; in some cases a million times more.
Table of detailed money numbers and %ages - at
tax4
Because a banded system is very wasteful [below], we ordinary folk pay much more than necessary.
As the cost of a fair non-banded system would be only 0.2% of property value p.a., you can see that we are all paying not only our own taxes but very nearly all the property taxes of the very rich.
Many of the very poor ref10 with maybe only a few sticks of furniture, pay 1,000 % and more in "property tax".
A rich Cabinet Minister (with property of £100M or more) pays 0.001% or less.
That's one million times more tax demanded from the poor.
N.B. A very rich Cabinet Minister lied on record when he claimed "Council Tax is a fair property-based Tax". Liar!
11 Jan 2001 - Children link01 of the poor are barred from school for not wearing expensive compulsory school uniforms that their overtaxed parents cannot afford.
1999 - Many councils link02 now charge fees for "public" services paid for by poor peoples' taxes - educational link03 & link04 facilities, museums, even "public" washrooms or lavatories.
So the poor and lower-incomed can't use them!
So young mothers and anyone out-of-work, paying vastly higher tax rates than the well-off councillors and their richer friends, are corruptly excluded from services (and grants) for which they (the poor) are taxed so much.
Hypocrite councillors and rich senior civil servants are thus exposed as cruel liars link07 and thieves. They're persecutors of the middle-incomed and the poor, who pay the highest rates of local tax and are now barred, by unfair costs, from the very services for which they pay so highly
Politicians and bureaucrats always lie about taxes. A politician (named Cecil) claimed that British Property Tax is "fair". Liar! Compare 50 years of payments:- In the USA Bill Gates will pay around 50% of his home's value in Property Tax; in Britain the author (one of the 'poor') will now pay 100% or more; in Britain a multi-millionaire politician will pay 2.5% (or less). Date: 21 March 2000 |
"Perceptions" editor wrote to John Major (then UK Prime Minister) asking why his government allowed Duke of Westminster (England's richest so-called "aristocrat") to escape 99.9% of the taxes that we poorer people are forced to pay. [Duke pays less than 0.001% property tax, while many poor people are forced to pay 1000% - a tax rate one million times higher than the Duke's. The Duke - like other rich aristocrats (and many politicians) - is paying much less tax than the national average and is therefore a criminal parasite feeding off the poor. - Maybe check here & here] John Major instructed his civil servant to answer, saying - a) that British taxes were 'fair' - a lie; b) that 'National Insurance' was not taxation - another lie; c) that the Duke paid fair taxes - yet another lie. - - - - - - All politicians and senior civil servants are motivated to lie, especially about taxes |
| The truth of Adam Smith's statement is born out by admissions of the Chancellor of the Exchequer - of the most corrupt government in recent British history - Norman Lamont:- "reducing a tax or even abolishing one can bring in more revenue" and, on the "Petroleum Revenue Tax" "...because of its generous regime of reliefs it had become a drain on the Treasury rather than a source of revenue." [the Oil Companies complained when the tax was abolished] - [from p346 of "In Office" by Norman Lamont - ISBN 0-316-64707-1] |
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