cometh the budget tomorrow ?

rowlo



Joined: 12/10/2008
Posts: 4796

Message Posted:
22/06/2010 00:19

more doom and gloom forecasted , this will be interesting , everything to be cut , except for ? you got it MPs salarys ,

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
22/06/2010 00:33

rowlo i heard vat is going up to 22 per cent and a big hike on capital gains tax also, they have already agreed to cut thier salary havent they. The mess the UK is in they would have to look at all angles.

Pipie


Joined: 05/01/2008
Posts: 5499

Message Posted:
22/06/2010 02:51

As long as they stop the ''why should we work when we are better off claiming benefits signature tune ''

proger1



Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 2919

Message Posted:
22/06/2010 07:30

Pipie, never a truer word has been spoken.

The way I see it is that the UK government has spent so long being nice to the poor man and taking the needed money from the rich man that it has turned into a nation of people with two choices.

Work has hard and as honestly as you can to afford what you need and strive to do better or sit back and be lazy and/or disshonest and get everything you want for nothing.

Examples: Income tax is levied at higher percentages the more money you earn (Why strive to get a better paid job, you don't gain that much)

Council tax: Spend your life saving or getting into debt for a better house and pay a higher rate of tax for exactly the same services.

Be unemployed: Pay no income or council tax, get your rent paid for you and money to spend on food (maybe)



What is the incentive to work in a country that makes life easier by not working and now they say that increases are required for the higher earners as the lower earners can't afford things, yay!

fiendishpaul


Joined: 18/05/2008
Posts: 1720

Message Posted:
22/06/2010 08:16

Proger



Spot on !!



Flat rate of income tax for all - if you earn more then you pay more tax, simples !!



Those on benefits should have their rent paid direct to the landlord and should be given food tokens for use at supermarkets. The state has a responsibility to provide housing and food for those who cannot afford it, that is where the state's assistance should end. It is not the state's 'responsibility' to provide widescreen tv's, ciggies and booze.



Rant over



Paul

Chelpet


Joined: 10/03/2010
Posts: 253

Message Posted:
22/06/2010 08:19

Firstly stop all benefit payments to migrants (no matter where they come from) for at least a year, if they have no food then bring back soup kitchens.

Cut all overseas aid to minimum, look after your own first.

Cut child allowance to families with 3 or more children (after all it was their choice)

Do not increase Vat its high enough already

Cut Winter fuel allowance to pensioners that earn 30K or more

Cut benefits to out of work people who cannot prove they are actively looking for work

Cut obscene pay to Council Chiefs and National Health Managers

Cut out all public enquiries that cost fortunes that line the pockets of fat cat solicitors

And no I am not a member of BNP just a person that has always worked all my life, and now I am going to be hammered because I was sensible with my money (until I saw TRNC)

catalkoykid


Joined: 15/02/2009
Posts: 1190

Message Posted:
22/06/2010 08:26

Cut child allowance to everyone you want children pay for them

HildySmith


Joined: 02/07/2009
Posts: 1708

Message Posted:
22/06/2010 11:19

£155 billion in debt this year + interest.

- How much can a country take?

- How did we get in this mess in the first place?

Ask

Gordon Brown

Tiggy


Joined: 25/07/2007
Posts: 1994

Message Posted:
22/06/2010 17:57

Wathc out.....BLUE RINCE ALERT!

Pipie


Joined: 05/01/2008
Posts: 5499

Message Posted:
22/06/2010 18:23

Agree with messege 7 !!!

malsancak


Joined: 23/08/2009
Posts: 2874

Message Posted:
22/06/2010 18:32

HildySmith, ask the banks who lent money to people trying to buy a house which had increased in price 250%. That debt is partly the result of preventing the UK banking system from crashing and along with it the UK economy when their houses suddenly dropped 20% in price July 2007-July 2009 and they discovered that the ridiculous mortgages they had been given couldn't be paid. I suppose you could blame it on the government for not replacing the social housing that the Tories sold off which led to a boom in the rental market. Perhaps you remember the Apprentice multi-millionaire going bust with a massive debt bank had to cover. He was part of the reason Brown had to step in.

rowlo



Joined: 12/10/2008
Posts: 4796

Message Posted:
22/06/2010 22:32

msg8 , in respect we should be asking tony blair , dont you think ?

HildySmith


Joined: 02/07/2009
Posts: 1708

Message Posted:
22/06/2010 22:47

Malsancak

- My Mother 98 years of age had put her funeral/funds into Northern Rock shares - LOST THE LOT

- My husband (now retired) put his money into his Company Shares - LOST £40,000

- I too had a mortgage which was affected in the same way as you stated

Now I read that Tony Blair has homes to the value of £14million - the one he has in Trimdon Village, in the North east of England is up for sale - no doubt he does not wish to live in a mining village anymore as he does not need their votes.

Gordon Brown got us in the mess we are in by

- sitting back and doing nothing to stop them

- borrowing instead of paying off debts

HildySmith


Joined: 02/07/2009
Posts: 1708

Message Posted:
22/06/2010 22:48

Rowlo

We can ask Tony Blair but who was his Chancellor???

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
22/06/2010 22:51

hildy more questions than answers im afraid, may thet rot in thier hell xxxxxxxx