They have the option of borrowing against the house to pay for a buy-to-let property or two and then using the income from that to pay for the tax.

Will be amazed if some smart property-management companies aren't offering it as a service by the end of December.

By this logic isn't christianity unchristian as it wasn't the majority religion during early christian times?

If apprenticeships are to be a vocational entry point then you still have to somewhat 'overtrain' on basic skills to equip people to adapt to more senior roles over time and to continue to learn and adapt as vocational roles evolve. The ministers could do with some additional education.

I care less if a project cost more than planned than if it cost more than it should or more than it was worth

It would be nice if the planned costs were more accurate, but given they are almost never *over* final costs, it's probably because of incentives and politics and external to the process

If you have a 2m house, take 1m in equity buy 3 houses and let them, then use the rent to pay the tax on the first one you've successfully reduced the number of houses for sale, increased house prices and will be capable of paying the tax for the foreseeable future.

Could add it to car tax and request mileage be entered when paying (using the already linked MOT as a double check) some edges when buying/selling but nothing major.

Gives you an option for spreading cost by monthly updates and to easily have a car size/weight multiplier - a nasty lack as it stands

And honestly I don't give a fuck if it's popular or not. It's going to make a lot of kids' lives better. That's the point of government. Not an opinion poll.

The leak that turned out to be right about it happening had some weird pre-payment scheme based on estimates of next year's mileage. That part might have been nonsense but for a government so keen on cutting red-tape they have proven to love their complicated bureaucratic rules and systems.

Making ICE cars less of a bureaucratic hassle than EV is probably not helpful where people don't expect to do a huge number of miles.

Possibly more complex than that. Reflecting on my own relatives I think it's more strongly a generational thing with slower discarding of the habit associated with class or wealth. Decline associated with when radios/TV first made it into homes perhaps?

Suspect it's not really measurable without access to something that would automatically be a better choice than what it was being used to measure.

Look at the media wildly speculating that milkshakes and lattes contain milk and sugar! So reckless!

I try to respect the hard work and skill that goes into polling but when so many questions are "Hello, what do you think about this thing you know fuck all about and have never probably thought about before me asking you?" and then presenting the results as some great insight makes it difficult.

Long lead times + FOMO I suspect.

If I need to order GPUs long before the building is ready, then any delay in that construction gives me a warehouse full of expensive GPUs. Even then when I expect delays with my other projects, do I want to risk my place in the queue by cancelling?

We should also tax advertising with 'enhanced' rates for risky-but-legal things like gambling or alcohol.

Have we all memory holed the RailTrack/Network Rail saga?

Can you extend this to other domains? For writing I think it's clear that poets and novelists are Carvers, journalists are Carpenters, but I feel that beyond that it might get a bit contentious. 9/end