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  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    lynzpower wrote: »
    What about chucking money at the private sector? Might that help?

    Left to it's own devices, teh private sector will do fine. Many of it's problems come from rafts of pointless legislation and the fact that large chunks of it's profits are taken away in taxes rather than being used for expansion and creating employment.
  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    wherediditallgothen wrote: »
    Or by letting the private sector keep more of the money it makes?

    Therefore depriving the taxpayer of what is rightly theirs.
    The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark
  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    ILW wrote: »
    Left to it's own devices, teh private sector will do fine. Many of it's problems come from rafts of pointless legislation and the fact that large chunks of it's profits are taken away in taxes rather than being used for expansion and creating employment.
    Such as what?
    The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark
  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    edited 2 February 2011 at 1:19PM
    Flyboy152 wrote: »
    Such as what?

    Working hours directive, maternity pay, various reporting that is required, complicated employment legislation, waste regulation legislation etc etc, need I go on.

    Plus small busnesses are expected to be unpaid tax collectors for the government.
  • wherediditallgothen
    wherediditallgothen Posts: 1,520 Forumite
    Flyboy152 wrote: »
    Therefore depriving the taxpayer of what is rightly theirs.

    Or by perhaps giving them the means to employ more taxpayers if that is what makes business sense ;)
    Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
    Bo Jackson
  • Wheezy_2
    Wheezy_2 Posts: 1,879 Forumite
    ILW wrote: »
    Working hours directive, maternity pay, various reporting that is required, complicated employment legislation, waste regulation legislation etc etc, need I go on.

    Plus small busnesses are expected to be unpaid tax collectors for the government.

    Yep, maternity pay, working hours directives, environmental regulations, ... all pointless legislation, innit?

    That was a silly post, ILW :rotfl:
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    Flyboy152 wrote: »
    Therefore depriving the taxpayer of what is rightly theirs.

    How on earth do you work this out?
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    Wheezy wrote: »
    Yep, maternity pay, working hours directives, environmental regulations, ... all pointless legislation, innit?

    That was a silly post, ILW :rotfl:

    No, the titles of these regulations are not pointless....but you completely miss the point.

    What makes up these regulations can often be completely pointless. Much of it is pure common sense, which we have to remind people off, stick posters up, and send them on training courses to make sure they carry out common sense.

    Because if they don't use their noggin, you can often find theres a court or tribunal case.
  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    ILW wrote: »
    Working hours directive, maternity pay, various reporting that is required, complicated employment legislation, waste regulation legislation etc etc, need I go on.

    Plus small busnesses are expected to be unpaid tax collectors for the government.
    It would help if you explained why you think these rafts of legislation are pointless.

    How should the government collect these taxes then? Ask people to send them a cheque?
    The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark
  • wherediditallgothen
    wherediditallgothen Posts: 1,520 Forumite
    Graham_Devon wrote: »
    How on earth do you work this out?

    Leftism makes you a bit slow :D
    Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
    Bo Jackson
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