Wasting money doesn't help

chris_spackman

I placed this in a different thread but think it would be good in a new thread.

With all that is going on we have to look at a few things.

Brown said no more boom and bust. Blair started a spending spree on troops and ammo for a war which very few wanted apart from a redneck in America.

Labour took on good books from the tories and have just ripped all the pages out and replaced it with dribble, debt and numbers people can not work out.

Trade unions have once again caused problems and the membership of these are going up so it won't be the credit crunch thats going to do us, it will be stikes when people are asked to take a pay cut, the same people who will go on strike are the same people who voted these waste of space in.

We pay too much to Scotland in health and education, fact. This needs to be stopped NOW. A drop in VAT is a joke. The council tax needs to be dropped to a fair price, councils need to save money and stop spending on complete !!!!. My council in Bournemouth spent £2m on adverts, £80k on an outside firm to help them save money when they pay someone £100k in house to do the same bloody thing. This is where money can be saved so we can not pay too much thus we have money to spend. What is going to happen to those who can not afford to pay things such as the TV License, another bloody tax or the council tax in full each month. MP's and those fat !!!!!! in town halls should have their (OUR BLOODY MONEY AGAIN)expenses stopped, i mean poor souls having to travel to and from work, what about me and the train fare increase etc? This country needs a radical sort out, declare it bankrupt, kick out all the waste and start again.

A big problem as far as i am concerned is the general waste of our tax money thats one reason we have no money to spend and may need credit.

How much tax do we pay on our money that has already been taxed?
GET YOUR WAGES, you pay tax
GET IN YOUR CAR TO GO HOME, you pay tax to buy it, tax to fill it up, tax on a repair and tax to insure it and tax to drive it
GET HOME, you pay tax to buY it,tax to insure it,tax to fuel it tax to watch the bloody telly and tax to bloody live there(COUNCIL TAX)
PAY MONEY INTO YOUR BANK and you get taxed on that too.

zappahey

chris_spackman wrote: »

We pay too much to Scotland in health and education, fact.

Never happy some people, not only do they want the oil, it seems now they want the chips off our shoulders too.

chris_spackman

I am sorry if that came across as anti Scottish. I am not but it is a fact. My post is to highlight the huge waste and sometimes unfair way our money is thrown around.

drbeat

chris_spackman wrote: »

How much tax do we pay on our money that has already been taxed?
GET YOUR WAGES, you pay tax
GET IN YOUR CAR TO GO HOME, you pay tax to buy it, tax to fill it up, tax on a repair and tax to insure it and tax to drive it
GET HOME, you pay tax to buY it,tax to insure it,tax to fuel it tax to watch the bloody telly and tax to bloody live there(COUNCIL TAX)
PAY MONEY INTO YOUR BANK and you get taxed on that too.

Have you recently arrived in the UK? We're all well aware of the above.

lynnexxxo

chris_spackman wrote: »

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We pay too much to Scotland in health and education, fact. This needs to be stopped NOW. .

Are we not entitled to health services or schools? Do Scottish people not pay their taxes too?

On a person by person basis Northern Ireland gets a lot more money that Scotland.

Cleaver

chris_spackman wrote: »

I placed this in a different thread but think it would be good in a new thread.

With all that is going on we have to look at a few things.

Brown said no more boom and bust. Blair started a spending spree on troops and ammo for a war which very few wanted apart from a redneck in America.

Labour took on good books from the tories and have just ripped all the pages out and replaced it with dribble, debt and numbers people can not work out.

Trade unions have once again caused problems and the membership of these are going up so it won't be the credit crunch thats going to do us, it will be stikes when people are asked to take a pay cut, the same people who will go on strike are the same people who voted these waste of space in.

We pay too much to Scotland in health and education, fact. This needs to be stopped NOW. A drop in VAT is a joke. The council tax needs to be dropped to a fair price, councils need to save money and stop spending on complete !!!!. My council in Bournemouth spent £2m on adverts, £80k on an outside firm to help them save money when they pay someone £100k in house to do the same bloody thing. This is where money can be saved so we can not pay too much thus we have money to spend. What is going to happen to those who can not afford to pay things such as the TV License, another bloody tax or the council tax in full each month. MP's and those fat !!!!!! in town halls should have their (OUR BLOODY MONEY AGAIN)expenses stopped, i mean poor souls having to travel to and from work, what about me and the train fare increase etc? This country needs a radical sort out, declare it bankrupt, kick out all the waste and start again.

A big problem as far as i am concerned is the general waste of our tax money thats one reason we have no money to spend and may need credit.

How much tax do we pay on our money that has already been taxed?
GET YOUR WAGES, you pay tax
GET IN YOUR CAR TO GO HOME, you pay tax to buy it, tax to fill it up, tax on a repair and tax to insure it and tax to drive it
GET HOME, you pay tax to buY it,tax to insure it,tax to fuel it tax to watch the bloody telly and tax to bloody live there(COUNCIL TAX)
PAY MONEY INTO YOUR BANK and you get taxed on that too.

It's like Richard Littlejohn but with even less of a point than normal.

shaven-monkey

zappahey wrote: »

Never happy some people, not only do they want the oil, it seems now they want the chips off our shoulders too.

You may take my chips, but you'll never take my Freeeeeeeedommmmm!

carolt

Yes - the Scottish/Welsh thing annoys the hell out of me too.

I want my own Home Counties Assembly, so I can vote for free prescriptions, free tuition fees, free care for the elderly, etc.

Out of everybody else's taxes.

Basil_Hume

Labour didn't inherit "good books" from the Conservative government in 1997 - they were getting better, but were pretty bad overall. Initially, Labour did very well by repaying debt and so on - but of course the post 2004-5 record is less examplary.

nickmason

Basil_Hume wrote: »

Labour didn't inherit "good books" from the Conservative government in 1997 - they were getting better, but were pretty bad overall. Initially, Labour did very well by repaying debt and so on - but of course the post 2004-5 record is less examplary.

In the absence of a suitable definition of "good books", can I suggest that they were a damned site better than those inherited in 1979.... and likely to be a damned site better than those handed over by Brown?

zappahey

chris_spackman wrote: »

I am sorry if that came across as anti Scottish. I am not but it is a fact. My post is to highlight the huge waste and sometimes unfair way our money is thrown around.

I did consider adding a smiley, so I'll do so now

However, what I will say is that, as a resident of "foreign", just about every tax here is higher than the UK. Marginal income tax rates are over 50%, VAT is 21.5%, stamp duty is 12.5% and car tax ranges from 70 EUR to 3744 EUR plus a tax for first registration of new and used cars. The only lower tax I can think of is property tax.