The video mentions it being a noble aspiration to want state schools to be so good that sending children to a fee paying school isn't necessary, this noble aspiration remains to this day. Is this not the issue here, that state schools are inadequate? Should the government not focus on improving education for ALL, rather than dumbing down the private sector?
Why just private schools? You should also lobby to remove charitable status from elite universities and charge VAT to Oxford, LSE and others. What is the reasoning for only taxing private schools? You could also gain much more money to fund state schools by charging inheritance tax to Charles III. Furthermore, Waiterose is very elite, why not petition to have Waiterose pay higher tax as well.
Title of video "LSE Events | Engines of Privilege: Britain's private school problem." Debated topic of poverty and income equality. The schools boys ignored the topic and talked about political rhetoric and contradicted themselves. English private education is no different than public education.
Telling people what to do with their post tax income sounds pretty authoritarian. They are already saving the taxpayer 4-6k p.a. by not using a state school place.
Yeah, and then robbing us us of twice that amount when they grow up and stash their "earnings" (questionable how a person could be 500x more productive than the average worker just by shuffling paper around) overseas in tax havens. They aren't saving us anything.
Wonder what the result of you opinion polling would be if you'd have added the consequences? "Do you agree with stopping the rich getting better education? And are willing to pay 20.5% rather than 20.0% basic tax rate to implement this change?" Saying £100m etc doesn't resonate with a human. Cost of sending these 7% to a state school would be 2.5 - 3 bn which is over half a percent on basic income tax.
Or they could just pay more in tax anyway and we could all share the rewards. Could also actually tax businesses like Amazon that avoid so much tax. It's not hard, and no they wouldn't just leave, they don't have that much power - yet. Governments need to grow a pair and hold corporations and rich people to the same standards the rest of us adhere to.
The video mentions it being a noble aspiration to want state schools to be so good that sending children to a fee paying school isn't necessary, this noble aspiration remains to this day.
Is this not the issue here, that state schools are inadequate? Should the government not focus on improving education for ALL, rather than dumbing down the private sector?
Why just private schools? You should also lobby to remove charitable status from elite universities and charge VAT to Oxford, LSE and others. What is the reasoning for only taxing private schools?
You could also gain much more money to fund state schools by charging inheritance tax to Charles III.
Furthermore, Waiterose is very elite, why not petition to have Waiterose pay higher tax as well.
sad and embarrassing to see that LSE promotes such events.
Title of video "LSE Events | Engines of Privilege: Britain's private school problem." Debated topic of poverty and income equality. The schools boys ignored the topic and talked about political rhetoric and contradicted themselves. English private education is no different than public education.
Remove the public schools tax exemption
Telling people what to do with their post tax income sounds pretty authoritarian.
They are already saving the taxpayer 4-6k p.a. by not using a state school place.
Yeah, and then robbing us us of twice that amount when they grow up and stash their "earnings" (questionable how a person could be 500x more productive than the average worker just by shuffling paper around) overseas in tax havens. They aren't saving us anything.
Wonder what the result of you opinion polling would be if you'd have added the consequences?
"Do you agree with stopping the rich getting better education? And are willing to pay 20.5% rather than 20.0% basic tax rate to implement this change?"
Saying £100m etc doesn't resonate with a human. Cost of sending these 7% to a state school would be 2.5 - 3 bn which is over half a percent on basic income tax.
Or they could just pay more in tax anyway and we could all share the rewards. Could also actually tax businesses like Amazon that avoid so much tax. It's not hard, and no they wouldn't just leave, they don't have that much power - yet. Governments need to grow a pair and hold corporations and rich people to the same standards the rest of us adhere to.