Cueey Lewis And The News Posted October 31, 2023 Share Posted October 31, 2023 (edited) 10 hours ago, Dirty Buggane said: You bet your ass. Wonder if some are still claiming tax relief for parking since they have not been charged for at least three years. As well as the free parking, you can also probably safely bet that Allinson’s new tax rules to progressively remove allowances from ‘high earners’ won’t set a ‘high earning’ threshold of around £75K to claw some of this back either. Despite most people probably regarding someone on over £70K a year as a ‘high earner’ https://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-news/minister-hopes-tax-changes-help-balance-budget/ It does also make a mockery of the usual MLP members going on about poverty though from the comfort of their £75K tax payer funded salaries. Hopefully they’re optimizing their charitable donations to Hamas for tax efficiency. Edited October 31, 2023 by Cueey Lewis And The News 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ham_N_Eggs Posted October 31, 2023 Share Posted October 31, 2023 24 minutes ago, Cueey Lewis And The News said: It does also make a mockery of the usual MLP members going on about poverty though from the comfort of their £75K tax payer funded salaries. Hopefully they’re optimizing their charitable donations to Hamas for tax efficiency. Why? You're arguement is that once you earn £75k you lose the right to argue on behalf of others who earn vastly less. No matter what lived experience they have had of poverty or what their constituents experiences are. That quite frankly is just stupid. 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banker Posted October 31, 2023 Author Share Posted October 31, 2023 As well as the salary they do get one of best pensions schemes ever designed! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casta Posted October 31, 2023 Share Posted October 31, 2023 12 minutes ago, Banker said: As well as the salary they do get one of best pensions schemes ever designed! Imagine a world where you designed your own pension scheme 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Two-lane Posted October 31, 2023 Share Posted October 31, 2023 You people are never satisfied. Next thing you will be saying that they should pay for car parking. You will never get quality MHKs and Civil Servants if they have to pay for car parking. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
english zloty Posted October 31, 2023 Share Posted October 31, 2023 1 hour ago, Banker said: As well as the salary they do get one of best pensions schemes ever designed! And free lunch, parking and fuel if it’s an e-car Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shake me up Judy Posted October 31, 2023 Share Posted October 31, 2023 One thing you can do is to stop voting and giving them a mandate every five years. If nobody voted then things might change. Remember that an electoral system needs legitimacy. We don't get decent candidates because the Island is still the cosy plutocracy that it's been for generations. The people who could really make a difference are well looked after, without having to stand for election. They're already pulling the strings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cissolt Posted October 31, 2023 Share Posted October 31, 2023 Poor Daphne thinks she should be paid more because it takes 2 hours to buy a loaf of bread. Does Rob still publish that awful blog? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Mexico Posted October 31, 2023 Share Posted October 31, 2023 24 minutes ago, Shake me up Judy said: One thing you can do is to stop voting and giving them a mandate every five years. If nobody voted then things might change. Remember that an electoral system needs legitimacy. We don't get decent candidates because the Island is still the cosy plutocracy that it's been for generations. The people who could really make a difference are well looked after, without having to stand for election. They're already pulling the strings. Given that the House of Keys fought for years until 1866 to prevent anyone electing them, other than themselves, and are still happy to appoint LegCo without any votes from the plebs, I can't see them being much weeping at the lack of a democratic mandate. They'd just claim that it meant 99% of the public were blissfully happy with them. 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doc.fixit Posted October 31, 2023 Share Posted October 31, 2023 17 minutes ago, Roger Mexico said: Given that the House of Keys fought for years until 1866 to prevent anyone electing them, other than themselves, and are still happy to appoint LegCo without any votes from the plebs, I can't see them being much weeping at the lack of a democratic mandate. They'd just claim that it meant 99% of the public were blissfully happy with them. True but so sad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve_Christian Posted October 31, 2023 Share Posted October 31, 2023 15 hours ago, cissolt said: Does air miles Alf deserve a 30% pay rise? He's banged on about an island plan for two years and achieved nothing. His crowning achievement is signing off on the Liverpool landing stage. He doesn’t get a 30% pay rise. He’s paid 30% more than the standard MHK salary as CM. He gats the same percentage pay rise. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numbnuts Posted October 31, 2023 Share Posted October 31, 2023 (edited) I think the sooner it’s realised that MHK’s/MLC’s actually have very little or nothing to do with most decisions apart from rubber stamping what CS have decided we might be able to move on. CS have clearly far too much influence , not surprising really , and almost like a runaway train. Till that is addressed nothings changing and won’t make any difference how much MHK’s salaries are. It will only get dealt with when the money runs out and seemingly the way it’s going that’s not long. Edited October 31, 2023 by Numbnuts 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swoopy2110 Posted October 31, 2023 Share Posted October 31, 2023 1 hour ago, cissolt said: Poor Daphne thinks she should be paid more because it takes 2 hours to buy a loaf of bread. Jacksons put a FB post up this morning of her buying her nice new EV. Great if we all got paid what she does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cueey Lewis And The News Posted October 31, 2023 Share Posted October 31, 2023 5 hours ago, Ham_N_Eggs said:You're arguement is that once you earn £75k you lose the right to argue on behalf of others who earn vastly less. No matter what lived experience they have had of poverty or what their constituents experiences are. That quite frankly is just stupid. I never said you lose the right just that you’re a bloody hypocrite if you choose to publicly do so. Poor Joney on her £75K salary and gold plated pension trying to fix the world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venus Posted October 31, 2023 Share Posted October 31, 2023 13 minutes ago, Cueey Lewis And The News said: I never said you lose the right just that you’re a bloody hypocrite if you choose to publicly do so. Poor Joney on her £75K salary and gold plated pension trying to fix the world. This just proves that you actually are quite, quite stupid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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