In this Institute of Economic Affairs podcast, host Callum Price interviews Executive Director Tom Clougherty and Editorial Director Kristian Niemietz.
…. As for VPNs ban them! And don’t tolerate law breaking of any kind! You should have nothing to hide if you are not doing wrong! … and as for standing charges? Ban t r hem too! We all pay enough! Linking them to wealth OMG! Who decides that? It would be simpler to go by Council Tax bands but really why have z standing charge it’s a con! It’s another profit to pay. Taxes are illusions like Charity! It’s paying for things we know should be paid for by our government anyway!
Another great podcast. If I may contribute…. The online safety bill is there in my eyes anyway, to protect children. It’s not there to protect adults. Adults can watch, listen or contribute to anything snd everything and they do. They still fall fowl to laws but they are adults. It’s an attempt to prohibit the worst content snd influence on the most vulnerable, I hope! I trust it will. If the cost is a loss of free speech or of freedom to be intimidated or coerced or be indoctrinated that’s fine by me as the real cost of those freedoms are the death of children of abuse of children. And if you are weighing up cost, then let’s get this right. No child’s life is worth allowing free speech to under 16s or 18s. Young kids were led to suicide. Let’s not forget that. So let’s not judge it’s intentional. Better to see how it pans out and amend or change these laws as time goes on! Why not revisit them? No law has to be set in stone if it proves to be wrong, unfair or toothless. Don’t get gang up on civil liberties when the consequences on one hand is knowledge and on the other hand is coercive suicide! There is no freedoms where children are concerned. By all means get on the libertarian horse for adults. I hope you can see that cost if you font consider the reasons. In my view adults are more and more unable to deal with facts and truth so begin to listen to lies and plausible preaching, that is much more dangerous than the safety in line bill. Throwing out the baby with the bath water has to be considered for sure but, the true cost of not throwing both has to be considered too. You mention a piece that was written saying Britain isn’t in a bad way really, well whoever that was are deluded if they can’t see the reality. Of course we need the right decision makers. But we keep voting in those who either can’t make a decision or are too frightened to or just aren’t bright enough to think of the right policy’s. Thatcher was not clever. She decimated the coal industry, the steel and motor industry the rail industry, the power and utility company’s our energy and power company’s you name it and and she sold it off all the family silver! She took away from her stewardship everything that gave us money! Do as to avoid having to make the right decisions to run them. She got rich! Major was a wet blanket. And talked about Europe so much he bored the hell out of us! He didn’t do much good and then Blair and Brown! All they did was get us into debt! Using private finance ti build hospitals! Lumbering us all with a declining health service. All I can remember them doing is avoiding their duty of care arguing about fox hunting or duper casinos! Anything to avoid the real things we needed. Blair got rich! And I never forget Brian selling off our gold reserves! What a foolish pair. I’ll never forgive him for the WMD and Iraq! And as for Cameron, Osborn … austerity and Brexit! and Johnson well HS2, parties and Covid! What an utter shambles. We have never had proper leaders with the right policy’s! As for May, she rubbished the police and they now work to rule and do whatever they can to wind up the governments, Truss! Well an abomination and Sunak a non dom! Now we have a son of a tool maker who made another tool. He and Reeves don’t seem to have a clue! We need to debate and they stifle free debate by towing a line! We need proper discussion and we get what? Assisted dying!! Honestly it’s a shambles. We need an Abraham Lincoln type of thinking and all we get is a George Bush junior! So we have never had it good! Ever!! The people get it right! Hard work, duty, sacrifice and years of commitment. These politicians just want to have a go! We have a debt do large we can’t even afford the interest! We need to spend more on everything and we have to cut, cut and cut! We protect the rich few, and allow all our money to go abroad! When the many need that money here in our economy! And we need a way to keep afloat to pay taxes! And we are sinking! Do that chap needs to go to SpecSavers if we still have one to go too! Or had that gone on line? We can’t pay our way! We were told we were heading for power cuts snd then the bills went up so we used less! Que surprise! Tax is illusions and we are hanging on by our fingertips! We don’t have shirkers we gave employed people who get paid for doing nothing! Nothing constructive! It’s a mess! Tom you can’t be anymore clearer! We need a policy that works! Kristin you can’t be any clearer, extreme right or left wing isn’t the answer. Get our monetary system autonomous and perpetual that works for all snd everything else gets sorted too! Our economy needs money and spending! It’s only two things! Remember all taxes, all profits all wages and costs are made from profit off the consumer! And the consumer pays for everything. He needs a constant supply of money that needs to be spent to make it all work! Why can’t Reeves get it!? Stop all money going abroad. Reverse Thatcher’s decision to take away exchange controls! Start controlling ALL our money and then get it SPENT in our economy all the time! It’s that simple guys!
…. As for VPNs ban them! And don’t tolerate law breaking of any kind! You should have nothing to hide if you are not doing wrong! … and as for standing charges? Ban t r hem too! We all pay enough! Linking them to wealth OMG! Who decides that? It would be simpler to go by Council Tax bands but really why have z standing charge it’s a con! It’s another profit to pay. Taxes are illusions like Charity! It’s paying for things we know should be paid for by our government anyway!
Another great podcast. If I may contribute…. The online safety bill is there in my eyes anyway, to protect children. It’s not there to protect adults. Adults can watch, listen or contribute to anything snd everything and they do. They still fall fowl to laws but they are adults. It’s an attempt to prohibit the worst content snd influence on the most vulnerable, I hope! I trust it will. If the cost is a loss of free speech or of freedom to be intimidated or coerced or be indoctrinated that’s fine by me as the real cost of those freedoms are the death of children of abuse of children. And if you are weighing up cost, then let’s get this right. No child’s life is worth allowing free speech to under 16s or 18s. Young kids were led to suicide. Let’s not forget that. So let’s not judge it’s intentional. Better to see how it pans out and amend or change these laws as time goes on! Why not revisit them? No law has to be set in stone if it proves to be wrong, unfair or toothless. Don’t get gang up on civil liberties when the consequences on one hand is knowledge and on the other hand is coercive suicide! There is no freedoms where children are concerned. By all means get on the libertarian horse for adults. I hope you can see that cost if you font consider the reasons. In my view adults are more and more unable to deal with facts and truth so begin to listen to lies and plausible preaching, that is much more dangerous than the safety in line bill. Throwing out the baby with the bath water has to be considered for sure but, the true cost of not throwing both has to be considered too. You mention a piece that was written saying Britain isn’t in a bad way really, well whoever that was are deluded if they can’t see the reality. Of course we need the right decision makers. But we keep voting in those who either can’t make a decision or are too frightened to or just aren’t bright enough to think of the right policy’s. Thatcher was not clever. She decimated the coal industry, the steel and motor industry the rail industry, the power and utility company’s our energy and power company’s you name it and and she sold it off all the family silver! She took away from her stewardship everything that gave us money! Do as to avoid having to make the right decisions to run them. She got rich! Major was a wet blanket. And talked about Europe so much he bored the hell out of us! He didn’t do much good and then Blair and Brown! All they did was get us into debt! Using private finance ti build hospitals! Lumbering us all with a declining health service. All I can remember them doing is avoiding their duty of care arguing about fox hunting or duper casinos! Anything to avoid the real things we needed. Blair got rich! And I never forget Brian selling off our gold reserves! What a foolish pair. I’ll never forgive him for the WMD and Iraq! And as for Cameron, Osborn … austerity and Brexit! and Johnson well HS2, parties and Covid! What an utter shambles. We have never had proper leaders with the right policy’s! As for May, she rubbished the police and they now work to rule and do whatever they can to wind up the governments, Truss! Well an abomination and Sunak a non dom! Now we have a son of a tool maker who made another tool. He and Reeves don’t seem to have a clue! We need to debate and they stifle free debate by towing a line! We need proper discussion and we get what? Assisted dying!! Honestly it’s a shambles. We need an Abraham Lincoln type of thinking and all we get is a George Bush junior! So we have never had it good! Ever!! The people get it right! Hard work, duty, sacrifice and years of commitment. These politicians just want to have a go! We have a debt do large we can’t even afford the interest! We need to spend more on everything and we have to cut, cut and cut! We protect the rich few, and allow all our money to go abroad! When the many need that money here in our economy! And we need a way to keep afloat to pay taxes! And we are sinking! Do that chap needs to go to SpecSavers if we still have one to go too! Or had that gone on line? We can’t pay our way! We were told we were heading for power cuts snd then the bills went up so we used less! Que surprise! Tax is illusions and we are hanging on by our fingertips! We don’t have shirkers we gave employed people who get paid for doing nothing! Nothing constructive! It’s a mess! Tom you can’t be anymore clearer! We need a policy that works! Kristin you can’t be any clearer, extreme right or left wing isn’t the answer. Get our monetary system autonomous and perpetual that works for all snd everything else gets sorted too! Our economy needs money and spending! It’s only two things! Remember all taxes, all profits all wages and costs are made from profit off the consumer! And the consumer pays for everything. He needs a constant supply of money that needs to be spent to make it all work! Why can’t Reeves get it!? Stop all money going abroad. Reverse Thatcher’s decision to take away exchange controls! Start controlling ALL our money and then get it SPENT in our economy all the time! It’s that simple guys!