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| AndyW76 | May 16 2008, 10:46 AM Post #91 |
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You can't blame the last government for the shambles that we are in at the moment. If they can't sort out their own policies in 11 years then they are obviously incompetent. If you look at current taxes, the current average tax burden in the UK is nearly 50% higher under labour than is was under the conservatives of 1997. And guess where moast of it comes from, the working classes. The problem is, the chancelor lowers income tax, yet takes the give away back with other higher taxes and the nett effect is that we pay more tax over all. Every time you do anything you get taxed, from insuring your vehicle to paying into your pension (though technically, pensions are not directly taxed, the profits from trading in pension funds are, which means that pension companies pay lower dividends), not to mention actually buying somewhere to live, which are all new taxes since 1997. |
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| TheCompleteGuitarist | May 16 2008, 11:12 AM Post #92 |
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You want to try living in a country where nobody pays any tax. It's not nice. Policemen get buses to work are under trained and incapable of dealing with anything, the holes in the road increase the cost of repairs on my car far higher than any tax I would have paid in the UK and state education is in such poor conditions that it takes about 11 years for most people to graduate because they have to support themselves on full time jobs then go to study until midnight at university and after that their salaries and working conditions are rarely improved by their qualifications so they piss of to live in Europe no they are educated. Tip of the tip of the tip of the iceberg. Ask yourself if you have enough for that extra beer when you want one or can I afford not to fill up the car and this is just the trivial stuff. Most people I knew never had problems with things like this. Jeeez I'm whinging today. |
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| u4coffee | May 16 2008, 11:19 AM Post #93 |
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Can a government thats been in power for 11 years really continue to blame the previous administration?
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| AndyW76 | May 16 2008, 11:22 AM Post #94 |
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I've nothing against paying taxes, we need to fund the country some how, but I do object to unfair taxation policy, where the government lords it over us by claiming that they are dropping taxes when they clear are not. I mean, how fair is it to drop income tax and announce it as a tax cut when, in the same budget, they raise nearly every other tax to more than cover it, shifting the tax burden to poorer people? To me, the only fair tax is income tax because it is the only tax that is based on a person's ability to afford it. |
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| AndyW76 | May 16 2008, 11:22 AM Post #95 |
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Evidently so, it seem. What plonkers. |
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| TheCompleteGuitarist | May 16 2008, 11:45 AM Post #96 |
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Maybe they're just referring to the previous leadership, not the previous party. As it is nothing is ever perfect, things are always changing and evolving and each government bring good and bad things, it's just that we like to remember the bad so that we can lay blame. My only problem with government is that they lead with their own agenda and for their own interests mostly and this has nothing to do with what the people really need or want. Bit like the leadership in F1. Dollar signs in their eyes. |
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| u4coffee | May 16 2008, 11:50 AM Post #97 |
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So... Gordon blames.... erm Gordon for the Tax situation then
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| AndyW76 | May 16 2008, 11:55 AM Post #98 |
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Well, that's the size of it. Even when Blair was PM, GB was still wielding a rather big stick. The only difference being that Blair has infinitely more charisma thatn Brown, though that never made me cross over to labour. |
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| TheCompleteGuitarist | May 16 2008, 01:34 PM Post #99 |
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fortunately (for me) I have no political affiliations. |
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| FlutterBy | May 16 2008, 03:16 PM Post #100 |
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Ermm, excuse me.. but what has politics to do with F1? .......stupid question. silly of me. I'll try to do better in future. Please accept my humble apologies.. (stops to refill trowel).. sorry.. sorry.. |
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