@@brianferguson7840 I miss the days of getting a doctors appointment, and them say we can fit you in tomorrow, me saying oh that's to quick, I need to book a day off two weeks in advance 🤣
Got the benefits of Tory budget billions in 1997, best UK economy in 200 years. Books balanced, Tory massive surpluses. But then Brown went on an insane spending, taxing and borrowing spree. Wasted the lot....and brought in welfare dependency and Benefits Britain.
The Columbia University student was correct. But she just wasn't prepared for the type of nuanced, civil debate Ben had with her. She will be used to debating a more disingenuous opponent barking glib phrases at her to score points rather than trying to understand her point of view. If she answered Ben's questions directly and from the heart she would have faired much better.
Maths doesn't work that way. I'll keep it simple: If we had absolute zero movement of people, we have a naturally falling population (less than 2 births per woman). That means there would be a falling pool of working age people to fulfil the jobs. That means less tax being paid to pay for the services for everyone, and pensions of the larger age group that came before. That means either a higher national debt or lower standard of living. That means we absolutely need immigration to have a stable and growing economy. There is no respected financial study that supports the view that immigration has a negative effect on the country. At worst, it's break even. Hopefully that simple explanation dispels some of the ideology you seems to be operating under, but I doubt it.
In the United Kingdom, income tax contributions are highly concentrated among top earners. As of the 2023-24 tax year, the top 1% of income taxpayers-those earning over approximately £150,000 annually-are projected to contribute 28.5% of total income tax receipts. This marks an increase from 25.0% in the 2010-11 tax year.  Expanding the scope to the top 10% of income taxpayers, who earn above roughly £50,000 annually, their share of total income tax payments has risen from 53.5% in 2010-11 to 60.3% in 2023-24.  These figures highlight the progressive nature of the UK’s income tax system, where higher earners contribute a disproportionately large share of total income tax revenues. It’s important to note that income tax is just one component of the UK’s overall tax revenue, which also includes National Insurance contributions, VAT, and other taxes. Therefore, while top earners contribute significantly to income tax receipts, their share of total tax revenue across all forms of taxation would be proportionally lower.
Up to 50% pay NO tax at all. Cannot be right. Cannot be justified. Make it compulsory that every one pays a minimum tax contribution of £500-00 annually, especially the ''poorest''.. Then you get ''society''....cohesive and joined-up society. No more ''something for nothing''.
@@zeb1801 But that happened under socialists in the 60's and 70's....and all the top earners moved to America, scientists, engineers, pop stars, actors, The Beatles...etc. Go away and grow up.
@@zeb1801 You realise that when your not in a closed system and people can move, that when you overtax people, they move their wealth? This is exactly what's happening in the UK right now - excessive taxes is making all the wealthy people leave the country and no one is starting new businesses here - they're moving overseas to do business where they are treated better. Your idea simply leads to a race to the bottom. If people want to be wealthy, they must take responsibility for themselves - it's up to the individual to educate themselves and start businesses. Increasing taxes simply limits peoples ability to generate wealth and removes the incentive to generate prosperity. The real culprit of the wealth gap is the debt based monetary system - it is the root cause of the problem. It destroys the purchasing power of money over time, while pushing up asset prices as people with money buy assets to preserve the purchasing power of their hard earned money, meaning that people with assets get richer over time while those who don't have assets watch prices increase while their wages stay the same. If you genuinely want change then you should be campaigning for a hard mon ey system that is deflationary, not higher taxes. No nation EVER taxed its way to prosperity.
My parents sent me to a private school for the last 3 years of my education and my mum worked 3 jobs and my stepdad worked 18 hour days 6 days a week and half days Sundays to do it. So this man is not wrong. My parents are working class.
l'm Sure it was their left wing views that made Dale and Miraj stand as Tory MPs. The socialist leanings of Natasha Clarke and Tom Swarbrick got them their jobs within the Tory Party. and who is more loony lefty than Ferrari and Feltz ?
Nothing wrong with it being about race. The English have a right to their ancestral homelands and the opinions of people who aren’t English are irrelevant to the conversation in the same way that the opinions of an Englishman are irrelevant to the Chinese discussion on who gets to stay in China.
Does that apply to Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales too or is it still okay for you to do to them what you accuse others of doing to you? Now the "ancestral homelands" of the English are Saxony, Frisia, Denmark and Northern France. I am aware none of them wants none of you but still happy to help you pack so the Celts can finally get "their ancestral homelands" back.
The English are a unique mix of those groups, yes, but we have been on this Island as a unique people for a thousand years we are a homogeneous group with those admixtures. I can trace my lineage back to 1090AD on these lands and so for a minimum of 25 generations my family have been building and contributing to this place. My heritage goes back to before records began.
l'm Sure it was their left wing views that made Dale and Miraj stand as Tory MPs. The socialist leanings of Natasha Clarke and Tom Swarbrick got them their jobs within the Tory Party. and who is more loony lefty than Ferrari and Feltz ?
l'm Sure it was their left wing views that made Dale and Miraj stand as Tory MPs. The socialist leanings of Natasha Clarke and Tom Swarbrick got them their jobs within the Tory Party. and who is more loony lefty than Ferrari and Feltz ?
The N.H.S. worked perfectly under the last labour government.
As did most things which were subsequently ruined by the Tories.
Remember when people complained getting NHS appointments was to quick. Those were the day in the 00's
Since it's creation, NHS waiting lists have "never" fallen under Tory government's.
@@brianferguson7840 I miss the days of getting a doctors appointment, and them say we can fit you in tomorrow, me saying oh that's to quick, I need to book a day off two weeks in advance 🤣
Got the benefits of Tory budget billions in 1997, best UK economy in 200 years. Books balanced, Tory massive surpluses.
But then Brown went on an insane spending, taxing and borrowing spree. Wasted the lot....and brought in welfare dependency and Benefits Britain.
Start of those 14 Tory years....NO MONEY LEFT...Broken Britain Bankrupt.
Then came covid shutdown and Putin inflation.
No fault of Tories. FACT!
The troll-bots on these videos are ridiculous.
It's getting to the point where there are more of them than legitimate comments.
Due to strange, whacky left-wing commenters - who need to be educated.
The left-wing digital lynch mob at LBC are always a laugh!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
If you want to brighten the new year for your viewers please no more Sebastian Gorka. Please.
Whaaaaaat!? Brexit increased migration to the UK.
The Columbia University student was correct. But she just wasn't prepared for the type of nuanced, civil debate Ben had with her. She will be used to debating a more disingenuous opponent barking glib phrases at her to score points rather than trying to understand her point of view. If she answered Ben's questions directly and from the heart she would have faired much better.
Russian rule the Ukraine a bit like the Brits in Northern Ireland 😮
Absolutely 💯 correct.
Wheres the best bits
Why don't you Brits work then , then you wouldn't need immigrants.
Hey look! It's that old guy again talking about how we don't work hard 😂😂😂
Maths doesn't work that way. I'll keep it simple:
If we had absolute zero movement of people, we have a naturally falling population (less than 2 births per woman).
That means there would be a falling pool of working age people to fulfil the jobs.
That means less tax being paid to pay for the services for everyone, and pensions of the larger age group that came before.
That means either a higher national debt or lower standard of living.
That means we absolutely need immigration to have a stable and growing economy. There is no respected financial study that supports the view that immigration has a negative effect on the country. At worst, it's break even.
Hopefully that simple explanation dispels some of the ideology you seems to be operating under, but I doubt it.
Best bits?
All presenters on LBC absolutely copy James O'brien's techhnique, even down to their wordings. Am I the only person who has notiiced?
Nick Ferrari or Ian Dale copy James O'Brien interviewing/interaction with callers techniques? Seriously?
If I was delusional then I'd probably agree with you.
They share the English language?
In the United Kingdom, income tax contributions are highly concentrated among top earners. As of the 2023-24 tax year, the top 1% of income taxpayers-those earning over approximately £150,000 annually-are projected to contribute 28.5% of total income tax receipts. This marks an increase from 25.0% in the 2010-11 tax year. 
Expanding the scope to the top 10% of income taxpayers, who earn above roughly £50,000 annually, their share of total income tax payments has risen from 53.5% in 2010-11 to 60.3% in 2023-24. 
These figures highlight the progressive nature of the UK’s income tax system, where higher earners contribute a disproportionately large share of total income tax revenues. It’s important to note that income tax is just one component of the UK’s overall tax revenue, which also includes National Insurance contributions, VAT, and other taxes. Therefore, while top earners contribute significantly to income tax receipts, their share of total tax revenue across all forms of taxation would be proportionally lower.
Up to 50% pay NO tax at all. Cannot be right. Cannot be justified.
Make it compulsory that every one pays a minimum tax contribution of £500-00 annually, especially the ''poorest''..
Then you get ''society''....cohesive and joined-up society.
No more ''something for nothing''.
@@ByJimineeItsBREXIT-z2k😂 especially the poorest…😂 what a total doyle
Absolutely they should be taxed much more - tax them till they squeal. It's not as if they can't afford it FFS.
@@zeb1801 But that happened under socialists in the 60's and 70's....and all the top earners moved to America, scientists, engineers, pop stars, actors, The Beatles...etc.
Go away and grow up.
@@zeb1801 You realise that when your not in a closed system and people can move, that when you overtax people, they move their wealth? This is exactly what's happening in the UK right now - excessive taxes is making all the wealthy people leave the country and no one is starting new businesses here - they're moving overseas to do business where they are treated better. Your idea simply leads to a race to the bottom. If people want to be wealthy, they must take responsibility for themselves - it's up to the individual to educate themselves and start businesses. Increasing taxes simply limits peoples ability to generate wealth and removes the incentive to generate prosperity.
The real culprit of the wealth gap is the debt based monetary system - it is the root cause of the problem. It destroys the purchasing power of money over time, while pushing up asset prices as people with money buy assets to preserve the purchasing power of their hard earned money, meaning that people with assets get richer over time while those who don't have assets watch prices increase while their wages stay the same.
If you genuinely want change then you should be campaigning for a hard mon ey system that is deflationary, not higher taxes. No nation EVER taxed its way to prosperity.
Does LBC have any non white presenters?
😂 and that’s important why ?
Yes they have. Why?
Yes they had one lady, she was very incisive, but she stopped coming on air suddenly…I think they laid her off
The left-wing digital lynch mob at LBC are always a laugh!😂😂
Why would you believe that a British politician would have any influence on an American vote? You do know the history of the USA, right?
My parents sent me to a private school for the last 3 years of my education and my mum worked 3 jobs and my stepdad worked 18 hour days 6 days a week and half days Sundays to do it. So this man is not wrong. My parents are working class.
How old are you?
44
That's a lie 😂
@@villhelm it’s not even legal to work 18 hour shifts 6 days a week. You wouldn’t have enough time between shifts to do that. Nice story though!
if you have a spare 12 grand for school fees you are not working class.
L B C is far left labour and woke
What does woke mean?
l'm Sure it was their left wing views that made Dale and Miraj stand as Tory MPs. The socialist leanings of Natasha Clarke and Tom Swarbrick got them their jobs within the Tory Party. and who is more loony lefty than Ferrari and Feltz ?
@@Sam88-l4k The left-wing digital lynch mob at LBC are always a laugh!😂😂
@@wiseget-f7e That isn't an answer. What is the definition of woke
@@wiseget-f7e oh copy and paste your comment everywhere. Got it.
Nothing wrong with it being about race. The English have a right to their ancestral homelands and the opinions of people who aren’t English are irrelevant to the conversation in the same way that the opinions of an Englishman are irrelevant to the Chinese discussion on who gets to stay in China.
Does that apply to Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales too or is it still okay for you to do to them what you accuse others of doing to you? Now the "ancestral homelands" of the English are Saxony, Frisia, Denmark and Northern France. I am aware none of them wants none of you but still happy to help you pack so the Celts can finally get "their ancestral homelands" back.
The English are a unique mix of those groups, yes, but we have been on this Island as a unique people for a thousand years we are a homogeneous group with those admixtures.
I can trace my lineage back to 1090AD on these lands and so for a minimum of 25 generations my family have been building and contributing to this place.
My heritage goes back to before records began.
Might I ask where you’re from?
If your paying tax into the system that provides. You have a say. Regardless if your heritage is not English.
@@villhelm The left-wing digital lynch mob at LBC are always a laugh!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The London Labour echo chamber at LBC is always a laugh!😂😂
l'm Sure it was their left wing views that made Dale and Miraj stand as Tory MPs. The socialist leanings of Natasha Clarke and Tom Swarbrick got them their jobs within the Tory Party. and who is more loony lefty than Ferrari and Feltz ?
Not half as funny as the GB News echo chamber.
Well it was the London broadcasting company only 15 years ago 🤷
l'm Sure it was their left wing views that made Dale and Miraj stand as Tory MPs. The socialist leanings of Natasha Clarke and Tom Swarbrick got them their jobs within the Tory Party. and who is more loony lefty than Ferrari and Feltz ?
LBC = Labour Broadcasting Company.
Race or religion answer it
Ben-look up laffer curves. You cannot tax your way to growth