Fuel Price Increase

Mr_Skint_2

Maybe if we pulled out Cherie Blairs teeth and put them on e-bay we could
get rid of all world debt.




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gizmoleeds

scheming_gypsy wrote:

how do other countries manage? ?2.80 for a pack of 20 cigs, petrol a lot cheaper.
do you really think this country actually spends ALL the tax they take off us? That's all people seem to say is 'where do they get the extra tax' the governement say it but there's no way at all that tax is budgeted so that every penny is accounted for..

Should do petrol the same as PAYE. get a tax free limit using a swipe card, when you pass your tax free limit you start paying normal price. Same as if you've forgotten your card, you pay pump prices.

And the UK has one of the lowest income tax rates in Europe. You may not believe it (we British have a persecution complex and generally believe that we must be paying more tax than others, but we're not). The US has lower taxes, but you have to pay medical insurance, £10k a year for university etc.

ben500

Woohooo perception abounds on this thread, we have it too easy on most things in this country compared to our couterparts in less fortunate parts of the world such as America for example land of the free! well unless you want to see a doctor that is! for me I think it most likely that at some time in the future I may fall ill, and when that time comes I'd like to think that I wouldn't have to worry about whether or not I can afford to be ill or if I have to be miraculously well again in order not to have the yoke of thousands of pounds of debt over my head whilst supposedly convalescing my illness, if high petrol tax contributes to that then so what, like an earlier poster stated if we want it we have to pay for it and it certainly isn't being taken from our pay packets these days in the form of paye now is it? make no mistake about it if revenue is given up on petrol it WILL be recovered elsewhere in the economy and you may just may like that a lot less but it would be too late then to cry "put it back on petrol" plus the government itself doesn't give a toss about campaigns against petrol taxes as they can always be explained as efforts in our campaign to reduce global warming, a deterrent to over users of their vehicles, to reduce congestion etc etc etc

We can't have it all ways now can we.

Cardew

scheming_gypsy wrote:

how do other countries manage? €2.80 for a pack of 20 cigs, petrol a lot cheaper.
do you really think this country actually spends ALL the tax they take off us? That's all people seem to say is 'where do they get the extra tax' the governement say it but there's no way at all that tax is budgeted so that every penny is accounted for..

Should do petrol the same as PAYE. get a tax free limit using a swipe card, when you pass your tax free limit you start paying normal price. Same as if you've forgotten your card, you pay pump prices.

"do you really think this country actually spends ALL the tax they take off us? "

Yes! where do think it goes?
In fact as a nation we have usually borrowed money and any surplus pays off that debt.

"Should do petrol the same as PAYE. get a tax free limit using a swipe card, when you pass your tax free limit you start paying normal price. Same as if you've forgotten your card, you pay pump prices"

Why stop there? We could abolish all petrol tax and raise the extra revenue by disbanding the NHS and charging everyone the full price for their medical treatment.