Cardiff - Changes to your recycling

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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There have always been and always be super rich in every Country, that is the way of the World how do you propose to stop it?

Not to the extend we have here and the US. The gap between the most and least wealthy here is one of the largest anywhere in the world and has grown disproportionately since 2010, when the majority have had to suffer austerity and now cost of living problems. Are you really suggesting things couldn't be different?

[North Cardiff Blue]

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My crutch got caught in one of the new sacks alongside the Taff Embankment early this morning.

What was your crotch doing near them

[North Cardiff Blue]

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Not to the extend we have here and the US. The gap between the most and least wealthy here is one of the largest anywhere in the world and has grown disproportionately since 2010, when the majority have had to suffer austerity and now cost of living problems. Are you really suggesting things couldn't be different?

Is that fact or assumption?

I think it's worldwide with the US being the worst?

it's not ideal but how can anyone possibly change that?

https://www.un.org/en/un75/inequalit...e%20inequality.

In 2018, the 26 richest people in the world held as much wealth as half of the global population (the 3.8 billion poorest people), down from 43 people the year before.

This matters because rapid rises in incomes at the top are driving and exacerbating within country income inequality.

[LeningradCowboy]

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https://cardiffjournalism.co.uk/thec...-new-strategy/

some info about it here, from march of last year, but I guess still relevant

Brilliant idea for the Welsh Government to fine cash-strapped councils for not meeting arbitrary recycling targets.

[Rjk]

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Is that fact or assumption?

I think it's worldwide with the US being the worst?

it's not ideal but how can anyone possibly change that?

https://www.un.org/en/un75/inequalit...e%20inequality.

In 2018, the 26 richest people in the world held as much wealth as half of the global population (the 3.8 billion poorest people), down from 43 people the year before.

This matters because rapid rises in incomes at the top are driving and exacerbating within country income inequality.

so if we murder 26 people and redistributed their money, we could double the wealth of 3.8 billion people?

[LeningradCowboy]

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https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/cardiff-council-could-face-huge-28722487

Cardiff Council could face a huge fine if it does not go ahead with controversial changes to the way it collects waste and recycling in the city.

[lardy]

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so if we murder 26 people and redistributed their money, we could double the wealth of 3.8 billion people?

Should be fine, I doubt they've got wills written.

[Rjk]

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Should be fine, I doubt they've got wills written.

Im also hearing that murder is illegal so looks like they've got every angle covered

[Dembe]

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Don't Billionaires own shares? If they keep a hold of them how do we tax that?

Don't many billionaires employ thousands of people?

Don't you think it's also fair that the majority that use the services pay for what they use? How many millionaires and billionaires do you see over the Royal Glam on a Saturday morning? Billionaires aren't putting a strain on the country, the masses and masses of people that need services are. If you take the kids to McDonalds for a treat do you buy all the other kids in there a happy meal because you've got the money or do you pay for your own food and leave like the rest of them do!

[Rjk]

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Don't Billionaires own shares? If they keep a hold of them how do we tax that?

Don't many billionaires employ thousands of people?

Don't you think it's also fair that the majority that use the services pay for what they use? How many millionaires and billionaires do you see over the Royal Glam on a Saturday morning? Billionaires aren't putting a strain on the country, the masses and masses of people that need services are. If you take the kids to McDonalds for a treat do you buy all the other kids in there a happy meal because you've got the money or do you pay for your own food and leave like the rest of them do!

billionaires are a strain on this and every other country

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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Don't Billionaires own shares? If they keep a hold of them how do we tax that?

Don't many billionaires employ thousands of people?

Don't you think it's also fair that the majority that use the services pay for what they use? How many millionaires and billionaires do you see over the Royal Glam on a Saturday morning? Billionaires aren't putting a strain on the country, the masses and masses of people that need services are. If you take the kids to McDonalds for a treat do you buy all the other kids in there a happy meal because you've got the money or do you pay for your own food and leave like the rest of them do!

I get your approach. Look after yourself. Don't consider anyone else. Pay for what you need. I presume if someone needed a kidney you'd tell them to piss off unless they could afford it themselves. Sorry, but I have an ounce of humanity.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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billionaires are a strain on this and every other country

They also get rich on the back of working people in this country.

I remember discussing this once with a rampant Tory, who sold gas for balloons, mainly to individuals who would buy balloons from a store and he'd fill them. He was adamant that we shouldn't have an NHS, that if people fell ill and couldn't afford to get better, tough. I asked him how it would affect his business. He thought about it and said it would have an impact on what he could earn, so I pointed out that paying a bit of tax and NI means some of your customers would get better and you'd have more trade. He never agreed with it. Stupid sod.

[jon1959]

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billionaires are a strain on this and every other country

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/feb/29/taxation-worlds-billionaires-super-rich-g20-brazil

The G20 group of the world’s most powerful countries is exploring plans for a global minimum tax on the world’s 3,000 billionaires, aiming to end a “race to the bottom” that has enabled the super-rich to pay less than the rest of the population.

Leaders gathering in São Paulo for a key G20 meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors are preparing to discuss an internationally agreed backstop on the taxation of hypermobile wealthy individuals, amid increasing global cooperation to tackle tax avoidance.

Aiming to build on the cooperation that resulted in a 15% global minimum tax on multinational companies, which came into effect in January, the plan is being promoted under Brazil’s presidency of the G20 before a summit of world leaders in Rio de Janeiro in autumn.

[Dembe]

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I get your approach. Look after yourself. Don't consider anyone else. Pay for what you need. I presume if someone needed a kidney you'd tell them to piss off unless they could afford it themselves. Sorry, but I have an ounce of humanity.

I didn't say anything like that did I.

Billionaires own stock. They are rich on paper. What do you want to tax? I get taxed a percentage of what I earn, that is fair, so as a collective many of us chip in and get use of services. The rich people, who have money on paper, and don't use any of these services are expected to not only employ and pay people but contribute to services they don't use. Why?