View Poll Results: Should children be allowed in airline Lounges?
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Should children be allowed in airline Lounges?
May 5th 2011, 5:53 pm
#181
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Re: Should children be allowed in airline Lounges?
Get rid of the Monarchy for all I care. Normal convention would say you needed a majority to achieve it, but hey, this is BE during daytime and normal conventions don’t count.
May 5th 2011, 6:04 pm
#186
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Re: Should children be allowed in airline Lounges?
It gave me a chance to tell TE to take her knickers off 
It was alluded to in these comments:
JTL : So taxing people for having kids? How about taxing people for NOT having kids, because they are expecting other peoples children to pay for them in their retirement in 20 years time.
Rambi : They can contribute through taxes and/or supplying children (and/or other means which are ultimately taxes on time or money). Society cannot survive without taxes or children. Therefore those who do not supply children actually should supply more tax
It was alluded to in these comments:
JTL : So taxing people for having kids? How about taxing people for NOT having kids, because they are expecting other peoples children to pay for them in their retirement in 20 years time.
Rambi : They can contribute through taxes and/or supplying children (and/or other means which are ultimately taxes on time or money). Society cannot survive without taxes or children. Therefore those who do not supply children actually should supply more tax
May 5th 2011, 6:07 pm
#187
Rhino with a big horn!
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Re: Should children be allowed in airline Lounges?
I say it is. Thats a Mexican standoff mate. (Slappy scratches ass, sniffs fingers and then picks his nose.....)
Get rid of the Monarchy for all I care. Normal convention would say you needed a majority to achieve it, but hey, this is BE during daytime and normal conventions don’t count.
Get rid of the Monarchy for all I care. Normal convention would say you needed a majority to achieve it, but hey, this is BE during daytime and normal conventions don’t count.
May 5th 2011, 6:09 pm
#188
Rhino with a big horn!
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Re: Should children be allowed in airline Lounges?
It gave me a chance to tell TE to take her knickers off
It was alluded to in these comments:
JTL : So taxing people for having kids? How about taxing people for NOT having kids, because they are expecting other peoples children to pay for them in their retirement in 20 years time.
Rambi : They can contribute through taxes and/or supplying children (and/or other means which are ultimately taxes on time or money). Society cannot survive without taxes or children. Therefore those who do not supply children actually should supply more tax
It was alluded to in these comments:
JTL : So taxing people for having kids? How about taxing people for NOT having kids, because they are expecting other peoples children to pay for them in their retirement in 20 years time.
Rambi : They can contribute through taxes and/or supplying children (and/or other means which are ultimately taxes on time or money). Society cannot survive without taxes or children. Therefore those who do not supply children actually should supply more tax
May 5th 2011, 6:11 pm
#189
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Re: Should children be allowed in airline Lounges?
How is your wealth stored? If it's in shares then they will be worth nothing when there are no more kids to work for the companies the shares are in or there are no more kids to buy their products. If it is in cash then that will also disappear to nothing if there are no kids coming through to generate wealth in the economy. If it is in housing then again this would be worth nothing if there were no kids to buy the house in the future. And other examples.
Your wealth is worth nothing without kids. All your doing is temporarily keeping that wealth from other people.
Image what would happen if everyone stopped having kids tomorrow and you will see that society needs kids.
Your wealth is worth nothing without kids. All your doing is temporarily keeping that wealth from other people.
Image what would happen if everyone stopped having kids tomorrow and you will see that society needs kids.
I doubt very much if I, and a small proportion of like-minded people refuse to breed, and everyone else responsibly limited themselves to one or two children there will no demand for property, products or services. Why do we keep decimating the environment to produce more disposable junk?
It keeps prices lower due to excess supply and unrequired workers in jobs. On a more fundamental level (and I know this will be highly contentious) isn't life already here worth more than a twinkle in someone's eye? Why can't immigration and adoption take a bigger role in the population demands of a country? (I could never understand why the wives of the chaps I worked with in HK were all on IVF whilst there was a massive orphanage of chinese girls just over the border).
May 5th 2011, 6:12 pm
#190
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Re: Should children be allowed in airline Lounges?
Did you read the article posted by Slapphead? We need to break away from the 'more people is good' model as it is imploding.
I doubt very much if I, and a small proportion of like-minded people refuse to breed, and everyone else responsibly limited themselves to one or two children there will no demand for property, products or services. Why do we keep decimating the environment to produce more disposable junk?
It keeps prices lower due to excess supply and unrequired workers in jobs. On a more fundamental level (and I know this will be highly contentious) isn't life already here worth more than a twinkle in someone's eye? Why can't immigration and adoption take a bigger role in the population demands of a country? (I could never understand why the wives of the chaps I worked with in HK were all on IVF whilst there was a massive orphanage of chinese girls just over the border).
I doubt very much if I, and a small proportion of like-minded people refuse to breed, and everyone else responsibly limited themselves to one or two children there will no demand for property, products or services. Why do we keep decimating the environment to produce more disposable junk?
It keeps prices lower due to excess supply and unrequired workers in jobs. On a more fundamental level (and I know this will be highly contentious) isn't life already here worth more than a twinkle in someone's eye? Why can't immigration and adoption take a bigger role in the population demands of a country? (I could never understand why the wives of the chaps I worked with in HK were all on IVF whilst there was a massive orphanage of chinese girls just over the border).
May 5th 2011, 6:13 pm
#191
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Re: Should children be allowed in airline Lounges?
Taxing if you don’t have kids?
Contribute through taxes and/or supplying children?
It’s as good as said, but I won’t argue.
May 5th 2011, 6:17 pm
#192
Cup of tea, Father?
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Re: Should children be allowed in airline Lounges?
This I can confirm to be true after conducting an experiment. The Gorilla (4-months-old) was unsettled, because he was hungry. I scratched my arse; the child wailed. So I picked my nose; the child notched up to screaming. So I tried shoving a boob in his mouth. Et voila! Child shut up instantly. Almost like that's what's meant to happen ...
May 5th 2011, 6:18 pm
#193
Rhino with a big horn!
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Re: Should children be allowed in airline Lounges?
May 5th 2011, 6:22 pm
#194
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Re: Should children be allowed in airline Lounges?
The world population is expected to hit 9 billion by 2050 and by that time we are most likely looking at a Malthusian catastrophe resulting in famines and wars, water futures, land grabs, fishing leases etc
It's irrelevant whether the population declines in one country or another in terms if resources consumption we are one big race of people. We are living too long and having way too many kids.
Besides ask Amazulu about the gobsmacking prosperity of the German
economy. The Japanese could also open up to the odd immigrant here and there if they seriously wanted to up their population.
It's irrelevant whether the population declines in one country or another in terms if resources consumption we are one big race of people. We are living too long and having way too many kids.
Besides ask Amazulu about the gobsmacking prosperity of the German
economy. The Japanese could also open up to the odd immigrant here and there if they seriously wanted to up their population.
The point I was making is that the west have mortgaged off the future to the next generation. Yes, it can look like a Ponzi scheme, we've basically said "we're not going to pay, the next generation is". So like it or not, we are reliant on the next generation to pay off our debts.
So we need children, the tax payers of the future. The idea of taxing people for having kids is ludicrous. If we don't keep the 'Ponzi' scheme afloat the world will go bust.
JTL
May 5th 2011, 6:24 pm
#195
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Re: Should children be allowed in airline Lounges?
To be fair. All I was saying is that people have the choice. If you don't want to have kids then great. If you can't have kids then I'm sorry. But stop whinging about paying taxes because you don't have kids. If you want to live in a society then you have to pay for it. Paying taxes is one way. Supplying babies is another. Simple as. Anything else you believe I am saying is your own invention.
I seriously doubt it because I don’t pay tax.
Are you saying the only way to contribute to society is to have kids or pay taxes? Or are there other ways?
Edited to add - I did mention tax but it was in a humorous way.
And how many kids? 2 per couple?
Last edited by slapphead_otool; May 5th 2011 at 6:28 pm.
