| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re: Not propaganda - just fact! | |
| Posted by: | Kathleen Healy | |
| Date/Time: | 09/05/26 13:49:00 |
| I agree. It's big businesses with the power to lobby and offer rewards that are the priority. There could be a shift to tax the big online businesses but not much appetite for that. Amazon is registered in Luxembourg, so avoids corporation tax. Your average high street business can't do that. Sainsbury's not a small business is UK registered so pays corporation tax here. Not a level playing field. Amazon also generates a lot of externalities, costs of it doing business that it doesn't pay. Large amounts of cardboard that Local Authorities have to collect and impacts from having far more delivery vehicles driving around. Minimum wage increases are an attempt to keep a lid on a creaking system. A large portion of benefits payments go to working people to pay housing benefit and topping up low wages, so people can survive. So lower wages mean higher benefits bills. Low wages were also blamed as a factor in the countries low productivity, compared to say France. Cheaper in the UK to employ more people on low wages rather than invest in innovation and training. The rise in minimum wage isn't because any of the parties that have done it, and they all have, care about people on low wages. Clearly none of them do. |