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Topic History of: BROWN gambles Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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BR
I believe only around 30 million pay income tax. The rest are kids - oaps - unemployed or on disability benefit.
Therefore anyone who does pay tax probably is around
JK2006
It was a Ken Bruce caller.
I'm useless at maths but
dixie
JK2006 wrote: A caller on Radio 2 wittily worked out that - if the 50 billion needed to shore up the banks were distributed to us - we'd each get 833,000.
Which we could then put into a new bank WE started up - and lent to the bad banks in need of cash!
It's just been pointed out to me the math is wrong. Each taxper would get just under
dixie
JK2006 wrote: A caller on Radio 2 wittily worked out that - if the 50 billion needed to shore up the banks were distributed to us - we'd each get 833,000.
Which we could then put into a new bank WE started up - and lent to the bad banks in need of cash!