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Fucker is worth $16.8 billion and he’s whining that a 20% tax will ruin his nepo babies? JFC they can sell a few of your yachts to pay the bill you twit.
ok bet, we'll just appropriate all of it then
To pay the tax, he argues, the company would have to be sold, ending its status as a family firm and betraying the ethos on which it was founded.
Capitalist complaining about the socialisation of property even though capitalism is built upon the socialisation of labor. Smh.
Boo fucking hoo.
Where’s my job, porkchop? If you aren’t hiring, what good are you to me? Hope you become a prole like me.
work harder, suckboy
better yet just die
|The first £2.5 million of a business will still be exempt, but anything above that will face inheritance tax at 20 per cent.
I'm no expert in UK inheritance laws, but a quick google search leads me to believe that even %20 is unlikely given the number of relief loopholes and the nature of Dyson's enterprise.
new rule: the inheritance tax is the percentage of your body that’s above your shoulders
Bagged vacuum cleaners can more effectively generate suction and require less energy to do so. Baggless vacuum cleaners are a novelty, to be forgotten with the next sucky fad. Sorry the Roomba ate your lunch. Maybe you can pivot to the House of Lords.
Bagged vacuum cleaners also leak less dust, both in operation and while dumping. They also need to be emptied far less frequently than bagless vacuums!
I had a bagless shark for a while, and while I liked it, it recently died and was replaced by a bagged Riccar model. The bagged model really is much better at cleaning the air as it works. It's great!
The Dyson I use at work has a gimmicky design that's harder to use and feels cheap and flimsy compared to both of them while costing significantly more!
There's that niche where you can pretty much eliminate sweeping with a light, portable, bag-less vacuum. I keep the bagged one for the deep cleaning but it's a lot easier to overcome executive function block with a slim and light suckarooney.
They're going to remove the inheritance tax now ig.
Vac-u-suck 
He should build a submarine for his family, so he can escape this socialist hellhole. It needs to go deep