RyanioBirdio
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I would agree with this. I respect your decision to protect your staff and take some hits but I’m not somebody who thinks you have an absolute obligation to, if that makes sense. At least not as a permanent and ongoing solution. I don’t think the answer should exclusively be that people such as you should just carry the can and take chunks out of your own leg in lieu of any sort of plan from the people paid to run the country, and I think you’re right that not many people are looking top down.My concern is that the problem is being viewed in reverse; the bottom up rather than the top down (or even the middle up and down).
In some ways it is right that business owners have an obligation to help alleviate some of the troubles that staff bear. You spend much of your adult life in work so they do (whether they like it or not) carry a lot of responsibility to assist in their duty to improve working conditions and lifestyles through the balance of work against time off.
I have been of the opinion for some time that we are essentially being stealth taxed by high energy prices, particularly at the petrol pumps. I think the economy is so utterly screwed that without the enormous price rises, coupled with the huge percentage of each penny at the pump that goes to the government in tax and duties, that the economic picture would look far worse than it already does. I think we’re being squeezed at least in part to cover up Project Here (formerly Project Fear) and to make a badly broken leg look more like a twisted ankle, because if people start cottoning on that at least part (not all, but absolutely some) of the extent of our problems are self-inflicted and have come from grave mismanagement at best, and downright lies and borderline treasonous sabotage at worst, that the regime is in massive danger of getting found out. I think we’re coming towards the inevitable endgame. It has to come crashing down eventually because it was never built to last. Robberies are only designed to provide windows of opportunity.The governments role to not impose *something* on the cost of energy is destructive and dare I say, calculated. My sense is that this is a bit kamikaze and could spike tax receivables in the shorter-term but in the medium-term kill any future monies.
That’s purely my opinion - I’m sure plenty of people will think otherwise. But I’m firmly of the belief that if you look at something carefully enough with earplugs in, so that you can’t hear what anybody is trying to tell you that thing is, that you tend to merely see what’s in front of you at face value. The government is doing absolutely nothing and at this stage it’s obviously intentional rather than incompetent. Whatever the precise reason for that is.
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