BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[classic33]

This year I didn't manage to head of on my normal France then round north (BE, DE, NL) cycle tour. And end of each month I could have gone I looked back and felt "lucky escape" as there had been miserable and destructive weather across where I'd have been cycling. I'd probably have lost several lightweight tents in the storms they suffered, as well as many days stuck in a small tent sitting out rain, enduring wet sleeping bags, etc. Frustrated that I didn't get away but reflecting I consider it might not have been much fun anyway.

Weather has been very unusual this year.

The North Pacific has retained more heat this year, resulting in the weather we're now seeing. And possibly a colder and/or longer winter this time round.

 

[First Aspect]

A tale from a real-world wealth tax: a 4% surcharge on income over $1m in Massachusetts. I don't think Bloomberg is renowned for being left-leaning, though of course US taxes aren't high to start with.

https://archive.ph/J7VH5

Isn't that just income tax?

 

[briantrumpet]

Isn't that just income tax?

I suppose so, yes.

 

[BoldonLad]

Isn't that just income tax?

A bit like we used to have, way back, not sure when exactly, I was a youth I think, and, no where near earning enough to have to pay it. It was generally called surtax.

If my memory is correct, we also had exchange controls around that time, you were limited how much money you could take with you on your foreign holidays (way before I could afford such things), think it might have been in the Harold Wilson era.

 

[Ianonabike]

If my memory is correct, we also had exchange controls around that time, you were limited how much money you could take with you on your foreign holidays (way before I could afford such things), think it might have been in the Harold Wilson era.

A £50 limit, indeed back in 1966.

 

[Bazzer]

A bit like we used to have, way back, not sure when exactly, I was a youth I think, and, no where near earning enough to have to pay it. It was generally called surtax.

Surtax was abolished in 1973 and was replaced by Dennis Healey's progressively higher rates of tax bands as an individual's taxable income increased.

 

[briantrumpet]

Breaking news:

 

[Ian H]

Breaking news:

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Come again?

 

[briantrumpet]

Working as intended...

 

[BoldonLad]

A £50 limit, indeed back in 1966.

I was 19 then. That would be just before I made the switch to working in IT, or, “Computers” as it was called then. £50 would have been about 4 weeks wages, so, equivalent to about £1800-£2000 for a NMW earner today 😊

 

[BoldonLad]

Surtax was abolished in 1973 and was replaced by Dennis Healey's progressively higher rates of tax bands as an individual's taxable income increased.

I was 26 then, with one child a mortgage and a very secondhand Ford Escort, higher rate tax was not a worry

 

[Beebo]

Woman fined £150 for pouring coffee dregs down the drain?
this is crazy. My understanding is that most rainwater drains end up in the sewer anyway?
what is a responsible way to pour away cold coffee?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg435gg66gpo

 

[BoldonLad]

Woman fined £150 for pouring coffee dregs down the drain?
this is crazy. My understanding is that most rainwater drains end up in the sewer anyway?
what is a responsible way to pour away cold coffee?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg435gg66gpo

Maybe being unable to walk to the bus stop, without a cup of coffee in her hand, was the offence, rather than disposing of the dregs? 😊

 

[Ian H]

Woman fined £150 for pouring coffee dregs down the drain?
this is crazy. My understanding is that most rainwater drains end up in the sewer anyway?
what is a responsible way to pour away cold coffee?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg435gg66gpo

The issue here is not rainwater going into sewers, but what should be in the sewers ending up in storm drains. But essentially she was fined for littering.

 

[briantrumpet]

I see that Zuckerberg's Threads has toppled Musk's X for daily active users. It gives me slight pleasure that X is on the decline, given Musk's malign influence, but it's only slight as I don't think that Zuckerberg gives two hoots about the corrosive effect he's having on the world. (FTR, I do get a very small income from Meta, just enough to justify making a tax loss on it.)

I tried Threads for a while, but didn't find it of any interest/use at all for keeping up with the news and informed opinion.