Tax freedom day

Here's a new twist to Brown and this government regarding tax!

Tax freedom day

The reality of living under this ‘tax em till they bleed’ government - Nu labour!

If you had to pay all of your tax at once, how long would it take you? How much of the year would you spend working for the government before you get to keep any money yourself?

Well, in 2008, you would have to work until June 2 before you had enough money to pay your tax bill off entirely. That is according to the Adam Smith Institute – which has declared Monday, June 2, tax freedom day.

The calculation includes all the income the government gets from taxes - both direct (such as income tax) and indirect (such as VAT). At the moment, the government takes about 40% of the total income of the country in taxes.

http://money.msn.taxbuddies.com/newsb.php?id=63

Every penny of the first six months of your salary earned at work goes to the government and this figure does not include extortionate, additional household basic charges and expenditures encouraged by this government’s policies and directives, especially to local authorities and councils. The government encourage this, to enable them to simply have to pay less to councils out of central government Westminster funds. They include community charges, traffic and parking fines, wrong day bin taxes, fines for recycling the wrong rubbish in designated bags, new on the spot fines for dropping a cigarette stub or crisp packet in the street and so on.

This government are also big into Carbon emission fines, national insurance charges, prescription charges, University fees, congestion charges in London but coming to a city near you, the list goes on!

I know people will say ‘yes, but whatever government gets into power will squeeze the tax payers’ but come on? This Nu Labour government with their mismanagement of our economy gradually over the last 11 years, must take the biscuit. They are the worse government for hidden revenue raise policies and tax that the British public have ever experienced in the history of our modern democracy.
We are now one of the most taxed countries in the world. For example, in America, their petrol and diesel is less than half the price of ours, yet the American public are still up in arms and the unions are threatening to shut down the country with industrial action. We have recently seen the French reaction of blocking the ports and showing their disgruntlement, the French police actually belong to the same union as the protesting port workers, how cute is that?

Personally , I have had enough, as I think most of the British population have. People talk about the low popularity ratings of the unelected Gordon Brown, I think that whoever leads this government will not change the dismal polls for the government. You only have to read the financial reports about our Holy Grail that governs all our credit spending and feel good factor, the diminishing equity in our homes, to realise that we are in for hard times. Yet this government continue with a policy were we all have to work (in real terms) for the first six months of the year before we can put a loaf of bread on the table.

Have a nice day at work Britain!

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