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    1. TropicalGoth77 on

      We should follow Norway and nationalize all gambling. Treat it as a stupid tax. Also means you can put in protective measures to stop people from totally destroying their own lives.

    2. ExoneratedPhoenix on

      Not quite sure how taxing someone’s addiction helps half a million children…

      The money will immediately be absorbed into the ever widening blackhole of mathematical inevitability due to our current debt, and those who gamble will continue to do so…

      However, I guess if I had to choose between taxing hard working people even more when they’re already paying more than any other nation on the planet, or gamblers, I suppose gamblers it is.

    3. EdmundTheInsulter on

      So this is exclusively useful to parents with 3 or more children? A pet scheme of Labour? This 2 child cap has also been around a while. Can’t see the change being popular, it’s a sop to the labour left who will move onto wanting to clobber someone else for the next scheme.

    4. I hate these headlines….. the reality is they cant rule anything out as they got very few levers left to pull at this point.

      They’ve boxed themselves in with this fiscal rule policy and its meant they’ve got very few options open to them to fix the public finances.

    5. Vertigo_uk123 on

      If they put a 20-40% income tax on gambling wins it would raise 8-16bn a year in extra tax.

    6. middleofaldi on

      Good, the gambling industry produces no economic value and taxing it will be much better than taxing work

    7. When taxes increase, the cost is passed directly onto the players via changes in things such as odds. Each bet made now loses more. It also encourages players to play on off shore sites. Its already taxes very highly. I personally do 99% of my gambling outside of the UK now.

    8. No one actually cares about children in poverty – it’s just something people bring up (on both sides) to make them feel righteous.

    9. OkMeasurement6930 on

      > sorry wrong person

      Haha, been there. No worries.

      Yeah, I see what you’re saying. I’m not thinking you take from one, to directly fund the other.

      Really, i’d like to see a crackdown on these off-shore gambling sites. I’d take a big chunk of the profits they make from gambling in this country.

    10. MerakiBridge on

      Why do they have they always choose to go down the „rob Peter to pay Paul“ way I do not know given all the money goes into the single Treasury’s kitty I do not know.

    11. Turbulent_Rhubarb436 on

      Why not just ban gambling completely?

      In the interests of one in / one out, we could legalise weed at the same time.

      Nearly all the harms of weed are caused by criminalisation.

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