Tony Weston
@tonywestonuk
Software Developer, The opinions expressed here belong solely to myself.
What is the most important thing in the fight for survival against climate change? 1. More solar? 2. Wind? 3. Degrowth? or. 4. Fighting the propaganda that has meant that 99% of people believe that the above will cost each and everyone of us $000's in additional tax payments?
“They’ve got virtually no choice but to shut the welfare state down” This is not true. And it is not a progressive thing to say. Austerity is always Always ALWAYS a choice.
If the government keeps losing its wealth the welfare state is over. On @LBC just now.
Why the right are so against MMT? Because it takes away their argument that it’s bad that there is less tax revenue.
👋 Hey, Laffer Curve, how've you been?
We tax to make them less rich. If it makes them less rich , then it’s good. Gov doesn’t need their money, and hence these arguments against higher tax on the rich because it reduces revenue, are null and void.
“Tax me! Tax me!” Even as the evidence continues to roll in that increasing taxes actually reduces the income, NPC continue to cheer for their own demise.
Deflation is a terrible thing to happen with those who have debt… usually the working class. They are advocating for extreme class divide, not libertarianism
Under a Libertarian government prices would continuously go down, not up, as regulations, taxes, rents, and barriers to production are drastically reduced and eliminated.
The inflation rate will gravitate towards the policy rate. As is shown in the chart below, from the Bank of England. CPI would be back below 2 if the bank of england had reduced its rates quicker. It decided it wanted to give mortgage holders a kicking instead.
100% agree with this. Run your code through an LLM, and ask it to review it. You may be surprised.
Finding errors is one of the strongest use cases for LLMs, because being capable of saying "this is probably an error" is much more useful in practice than being able to say "this is probably a solution".
⏳ Final week to sign up to the Green Party. 🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
If the state funded university degrees, I personally would be:
We should scrap the triple lock. The time has come. You want to cut spending and the size of the state? That’s a good start.