What is ‘fair’?

Friday-weekend blog

Andy Burnham (like most lefty politicians) has consistently argued that the UK’s current taxation system is unfair because it overtaxes labour while undertaxing wealth and assets, highlighting the lower tax rate on share dividends compared to standard income as a key inequality.

So, we all know what will happen if the ‘King of the North’ becomes our next prime minister.

The first illogical part of the Northern King’s claim is that he somehow forgets to consider the fact that many people who buy shares do so using income which has already been taxed. So, by having to pay tax on their share dividends, they are being taxed twice. And, of course, were they to eventually die while still owning those shares, they will be taxed a third time.

Moreover, if the Burnhamesque economic geniuses believe that taxes on labour (people who can ne bothered to work) are too high compared to other taxes, maybe they should lower income taxes for those who actually work by cutting over-generous benefits for those who can’t be arsed to work? But this idea never seems to occur to them.

Oh, and I just noticed after I wrote this blog that “if you receive social security benefits such as Personal Independence Payment, Carer’s Allowance, or New-Style ESA, your payments will rise by 3.8%”. However, the thresholds at which you pay tax on income or bank interest are still frozen. So, under Britain’s greatest ever female chancellor, those who work are falling further behind those who can’t be arsed to get a job. Is that ‘fair‘?

But there’s a deeper problem with the great economist Burnham’s claim, namely: what is ‘fair’.

Is it fair that those who can be bothered to go out to work have to pay extortionate rates of tax to subsidise the idle lifestyles of the ever-increasing millions who can’t be bothered to get off their fat arses and so prefer to sit at home watching Netflix and Homes Under The Hammer on their widescreen TVs?

Is it fair that around 6 million who do go out to work earn less than many millions of skivers and shirkers who live off our ludicrously over-generous benefits system?

Is it fair that often uneducated, often unemployable, often criminal, often rape-obsessed illegal migrants have a better lifestyle than many millions of British workers who pay taxes to support the invading, West-hating, parasitic Third-worlders?

Is it fair that British workers are suffocated by ever-increasing taxes so that our useless governments can squander billions pouring our money into the offshore bank accounts of utterly corrupt Third-world kleptocrats?

The victim mentality?

When (IMHO) economically-illiterate fools and liars like Andrew ‘f**k-the-bond-markets’ Burnham make these ridiculous statements about what is fair, our journalists never ask any of the above questions. We have become a society in which anyone who tries hard to better themselves and provide a good life for their families is assumed to be an ‘oppressor’ who should be taxed and taxed and taxed in order to pay for the useless, the lazy, the skivers, the shirkers, the parasitic, the worthless, the corrupt, the criminal and all other similar the burdens on society.

Such a society is destined to collapse into despair and bankruptcy.

By the way, have you seen Andrew ‘I’m just a northern working class lad‘ Burnham’s house?

It looks pretty impressive with nice high gates to keep out the working-class riff-raff who paid for the Burnham mansion with their taxes. Is it ‘fair’ that a lifelong public-sector grifter like the Manchester Messiah can afford to live in a mansion at our expense while millions of young people can’t afford to buy their homes? What do you say, Mr Burnham?

Amelia is angry

Having made a few satirical political videos myself, I’m amazed at how quickly British Patriots can make their videos: