Thread: Election 2019 - Week 3
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Old 22-11-2019, 08:04   #54
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Re: Election 2019 - Week 3
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Originally Posted by jfman View Post
Theres tons of data out there that a 30-32 hour working week is almost as effective as a 37 hour week.

Increasing wage costs results in income tax and NI going up so your flawed notion that less profits = less tax doesn't hold up. An actual human being resident in the UK (99 per cent of the time) is going to spend that money, and pay VAT in the process. Benefits go down with employment up.

Companies profits on the other hand - dividends and tax havens.
Yeah, yeah. Remember that little gem next time you make an appointment with a doctor or you are still waiting in A&E for over 7 hours.

Labour's policies are highly inflationary and will lead to our being uncompetitive in global terms. Investors will desert us, the companies in line to be milked will leave these shores. Unemployment will soar. We've been here before...

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Originally Posted by jfman View Post
It doesn't get spent here in the same way I've just described wages. That was the clear and obvious point I was making.

The impact on shops would be an interesting one. Staggered shifts would be one approach. With the extra time people have would they spend more time/money in their High Streets?

Obviously from your armchair you couldn't comprehend such impacts.
You have both undermined your own argument and slipped into your own world of absurdity. Shops already operate on minimum staffing and it is often difficult to find someone to serve you. Staggering shifts would make the situation worse and this would send more people online and the High Streets would become ghost towns.

I don't think shop assistants have so much money in their pockets/purses that they can spend loads of time buying extra stuff on the High Streets! Get real, jfman!

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Originally Posted by nomadking View Post
The only evidence is where they are not working at anything near 100% capacity.



Corbyn's premise is that it is all self-funded by increases in productivity, NOT employing more people to do it.


What rota wouldn't give too many or too few people on duty at any one time? If you have a total operating day that is just an hour or two longer that the longest working day, how do you fill that with having X people always on duty/working? No rota can cope with that, without part-timers to fill the gaps.
Absolutely! You have to question jfman's 'economist' credentials! Why can he not see this? It's pointless arguing with him - he rarely gets the point and if he finally grasps it, he makes a different point to cover himself.

I think most people can see Corbyn's manifesto for what it is. It will not help him get elected. Not at all.
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