Don't worry about it. Just lower taxes on corporations and the wealthy and reduce regulations, the magic hand of the market will fix everything!!!

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OccamsMirror 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!

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CommanderData 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Consumer: upgrade our waterways please? hmm maybe don't dump raw sewage every day.

Thames Water: pooposterous! we must pay bonuses, or it'll affect investor morale! Haven't you heard, your water is the best in the world, be happy :)

	▲	ndsipa_pomu 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Thames Water: we need to raise bills to fund the infrastructure repair/upgrade Consumer: grumble okay, here's our money Thames Water: gives money to execs Consumer: the infrastructure needs repair Thames Water: we need to raise bills to fund the infrastructure repair/upgrade

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jameslk 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What do lowering taxes have to do with water running out in the UK?

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bayarearefugee 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Well we're not going to lower the taxes on normal wage earners, silly.

But we need to lower the taxes on the wealthy and corporations (and reduce or eliminate regulations) so they can distribute their capital to make new water!

Don't you know anything about modern economics?

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jameslk 4 days ago | parent [-]

Does this snarky point you’re trying to make connect with anything in the article? I saw no mention of taxes

	▲	actionfromafar 4 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		This is why we are where we are.
	▲	throw10920 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Just flag them. They're blatantly breaking the guidelines and they don't care because they're not getting flagged enough. HN is largely user-moderated and we'll continue to see more drivel like this if people aren't diligent about downvoting, flagging, and reporting especially egregious comments to the mods. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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queenkjuul 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Lower taxes can fix anything

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greyw 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Last I heard the rich are leaving the UK eroding your tax base. Im sorry but it is going to be higher taxes for you all

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vixen99 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

'The highest earning 1% in the UK pay an estimated 28% of all income tax. '

https://fullfact.org/economy/do-top-1-earners-pay-28-tax-bur...

The good news is that not all that '1% of the rich' are leaving. However unless this 28% of all tax figure is wrong, inevitably there will be an increase to counter the loss.

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rainingmonkey 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

That's a myth, all the breathless reporting of an "exodus of millionaires" comes from one very dodgy report.

Of course, the narrative suits the wealthy owners of the media, so the story gets repeated anyway.

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2025/07/the-british-we...

	▲	greyw 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		The outcome is not as clear as you make it to be. The Norwegian wealth tax hike resulted in a loss of about $600mn of tax revenue. We will see at which point the british will end up on the laffer curve.