Re: [OT] Herding cats

Dirk Bruere wrote:
Perplexed Seal wrote:
Dirk Bruere wrote:

Perplexed Seal wrote:




Indeed, financing the enforcement function as well because I'm unconvinced that it's appropriate to be collecting taxes at gunpoint!


Taxes everywhere and at all times have been collected at gunpoint, or swordpoint. I'd scrap all taxation on personal income and then fire all the civil servants no longer needed to collect it.


So given that you've already stated that you wouldn't disband the entirety of government, just the bits you don't like, how are you planning on funding it? Taking MoD alone that's nearly 350000 people,

With indirect taxes and business taxes.
Collected, as now, at gunpoint.

But you've just advocated getting rid of the people that collect it. So how is it going to happen, and suggesting that it's outsourced is intellectual fraud, the process still needs paid for whether it's crown servants or a sub-contract.



about 200,000 uniformed and the rest civil service. I'll acknowledge you could get rid of a chunk of the CS, probably about 25% without impacting on capability delivery, but the rest need paid, equipped, trained, fed and watered and that includes the CS currently on operations. So how are you planning on doing it, given that the above is content free.

Totally privatising the NHS would get rid of a milllion more govt jobs.

Which is wholly unrelated to the previous point and strikes me as little more than obfuscation.

Alistair
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