Yup, with you now

I find it striking how in the aftermath of Helene, libraries are providing crucial community services like free wifi while cops are guarding stores with rotting food from potential "looters" instead of serving and protecting people. Worth considering how we spend local funding.

As a proportion of income? I guess because VAT is a tax on consumption.

Sure , but there’s a case to be made that lower incomes are already at their limit, bearing in mind that they might more vulnerable to eg rent increases, not to mention the Vimes’ Boots thing.

Across the board?

I mean, it doesn’t. I’m extrapolating lot. But

That makes it sound as though the tax burden on wages needs to be higher, rather than taxation on unearned wealth?

I’m also keen to understand what “moderate” is, these days. Tugendhat is painted as a moderate, but the only policy of his I can think of is “leave the ECHR”, which is not a moderate position, regardless of how many Tories claim to support it. Mainstream Tories in 2014 would have been horrified.

I suppose people whose gender at birth, with which they strongly identify, is absolutely core to their sense of self. A shame, then, that this doesn’t allow for empathy towards those who very strongly identify with a gender other than the one they had at birth.

So it doesn’t help them at all. Mind you, the deeply negative opinion doesn’t help me much either. What to do what to do