When income tax was introduced during the Napoleonic wars there was a huge outcry. Now the most ridiculous taxes are levied and no one says a thing. Inheritance tax in the UK stars at £325,000. Most people who find they fall into this tax bracket did nothing but buy their home and it rose in…
Tag: USA
It Takes Its Toll
I worked with a person for three years and gave the a lot of authority within the magazine only for them to try to play me by lying to me. When I called them out on it they attempted to circumvent my authority and the whole reason my position even exists so I deleted what…
It’s a little bit funny
how easy it is for phrases to cover the vast distance between one person and another. I hear everyone invited into a news show saying ‘thank you for having me’ when they mean ‘thank you for inviting me’. Thank you for having me is something a staying guest might say or as slang a lover. …
People Are Asleep
I talk to some people I meet going shopping or in stores and I hear them say ‘he is awful’ and ‘this is terrible’ but they don’t have the information ready to support their case. I provide it. they are not sure of names, they are not too sure what they are complaining about in…
Words Betray
Donald Trump openly said that when they leave so Gaza can be rebuilt they won’t want to go back – why would they? He then says we will make it a seaside destination. He wants the US to have a series of his hotels where so much blood has been spilled in the past decades…
America Land of the Fleeing
There has been a list of articles and videos about Americans leaving the US after the recent election. From what I can see 500,000 Americans live and work in the UK but coming here as a citizen would mean giving up your American passport (and swearing allegiance to the Monarchy). Americans seem to favour New…
Everybody Has a Story
In the complexities of society every individual has their own trajectory into and out of adversity of one sort or another. We can argue that worrying all night about a billion pound deal and worrying if your child is going to survive the night carry the same weight of stress but it is stress and…
Brinkmanship
Watching the American arguments on Capitol Hill about the budget has been (for a foreigner) a dispiriting and banal experience. The arguments surrounding the life-blood of the American people (money) take place with hardly any real thought about what those people are suffering. It is not usual for us to think of American’s suffering, or…