The Budget - Page 3

Lolly · 21-03-2007, 16:56

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Originally Posted by chav1

yeah ive noticed your not that lucky on them lol

pretty good on the quizes though maybe if you stick to them you could be rich

I am. Just not when your around.......

Apart from the Black Dog!

I'll have to stop playing them soon anyway, otherwise I won't be able to smoke!! lol.

andrewb · 21-03-2007, 17:55

The 2p on fuel isn't going on yet hes delaying it till further in the year.

The tax cut wasn't really a cut, as I understand it it could cost lower income families more?

Nothing special, more money poured in to NHS, but it'll be wasted by management consultants rather than actual NHS staff, like it has for the past 10 years.

slinky · 21-03-2007, 19:13

Next year, the indications are that you will be £563.72 worse off.

Why don't that surprise me

shillelagh · 21-03-2007, 19:37

Next year, the indications are that you will be £40.18 worse off.

And thats with no drinking and no car - just my fags!!!!

lindsay ormerod · 21-03-2007, 19:41

Yay me ! Nice one Gordon ;if that calculator things right I will be £281 better off next year thanks to tax cut,child benefit and CTC, get in !

cashman · 21-03-2007, 21:50

£80-11p worse off, but dont buy it at all, these calculators etc are just some geezer justifying his/her job. more crap!

harwood red · 21-03-2007, 21:51

well it said

"Next year, the indications are that you will be £334.74 better off"

that'll do me thank you very much

shillelagh · 22-03-2007, 01:24

I got a letter this morning saying my benefits going up in April - £3.45 a week so im not going to be that much better off am i?

Wynonie Harris · 22-03-2007, 08:43

A brilliant piece of trickery from a master of the art. The cut in the standard rate of tax will be financed almost entirely by scrapping the 10p lower rate which Brown himself introduced.

Personally, I don't mind paying higher taxes for the likes of the NHS, provided it's used for more doctors, nurses, hospitals and the like. But, as Cyfr says, this government will use it for more management consultants and, of course, Tony's pet project - the nationwide NHS computerisation which is currently budgeted at a ruinous £12 billion and rising and whose value is questionable to say the least.

New Labour - same old spin.

garinda · 22-03-2007, 08:57

Robbing Peter to pay Paul springs to mind.

Personally I'm in agreement with heavier taxes for gas guzzling 4x4's. Sorry to any Mummys that use them to ferry their little darlings to school.

entwisi · 22-03-2007, 09:21

So what about Farmers and the like who need them for their business?

Plus one thing thats bandied about is the carbon footprint of them. yet the 4x4 market has the largest percentage of LPG converted vehicles out there which makes them less carbon polluting than a standard saloon car. You see there is hype and sensationlism all over. read a bit further into it and you start to uncover the truth.

We've also already done the " Europe can go squat if we continue to let China grow at such an astronomical rate"

Its a tax raising initiative with the 'blame' being put on the current sexy target of green initiatives.

garinda · 22-03-2007, 09:30

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Originally Posted by entwisi

So what about Farmers and the like who need them for their business?

People that actually need them for what they were designed for are a different thing.

Besides, farmers are already heavily subsidised by handouts from the EEC, so they should be able to pay for increase in taxation.