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Taxed to the limit

GORDON Brown must stop his crippling tax rises or face an election hammering, Cabinet ministers have warned him.

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MORE THAN 150 NEW STEALTH TAXES ADDED BY NU LABOUR

21.05.08, 4:47pm

In fact, tax, indirect and direct tax combined, has increased the tax we pay by more than 50% since this New Labour bunch came to power.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/henry.tsmith/garbgate/item2/stealth.htm

..and more to come!

• Posted by: NoisySiamese • Report Comment

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WE NEEDN'T PAY TAX.

08.05.08, 3:30pm

Why don't we just work and be given food vouchers instead of wages which is only taken back from us in taxes. It must be cheaper and easier for the government that way.

• Posted by: owldshep • Report Comment

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BAD NEWS.

08.05.08, 2:48am

The bad news is folks that Godron (Mugabe) Broon and his cronies in Nulabour through their squandering ways and their manic need for control through taxation and dictatorial legislation, have managed to return the masses to a time in history where serfdom is just around the corner.
It does not matter what happens to this decadent political party the damage caused will take a lifetime to recover from, for the everyday person in the street.
As Chancellor he has burdened people with debt of amazing proportion both personal debt and collective debt as a nation.
It matters not whom replaces him individually or if another political party eventually replaces NuLabour (that’s a joke) the nation has been burdened Mugabe style for years to come.

Put another way GoDron (Mugabe) Broon has achieved a great victory for the past ills the English may have inflicted on the Scots and has done it without shedding a drop of blood..
But alas the mental agony for the millions in debt brought about by twelve years of pernicious taxation and tyranical law making will more than balance the debt.

• Posted by: kojak • Report Comment

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CRIPPLING TAXES

08.05.08, 12:00am

They won't stop taxing the worker into poverty.
They need the money, to pay the idle and spongers of society.

And, I nearly forgot, to give all MP's a 25% pay rise.

It is time we took to the streets in protest, instead of posting these messages.

• Posted by: sheptenelan • Report Comment

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BULLET PROOF PM

07.05.08, 10:10pm

The PM does not need to be popular any more. It's now irrelivant. He will get a tonne of new laws and taxes through then hand the batton over to the Conservatives who will simply continue. Obviously they will give jolly good reasons why they 'must meet Britains commitments' which are a legacy of umpteen years of Labour.

Tories will U turn.

No sorry I disagree with my self (I am that argumentiitive). They will support the poor by giving MASSIVE tax credits. These will not be bebifits, they will be expected to justify them at the end of each year and any overpayment will need immediate repayment. Therefore we will at first applaud the Tories, but 12 months later we will see what they did to us.

• Posted by: Wayland • Report Comment

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TAXED TO THE LIMIT

07.05.08, 9:40pm

labours crippling tax rises are literaly taking the food out of the childrens mouths and the shoes of there feet ,poverty is rising in the uk with children and the elderly suffering the most .if it wasnt for cheap chinese products and store clothing people people will be strugling even more.vote labour out .

• Posted by: crazyhorse • Report Comment

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TOO LITTLE TOO LATE

07.05.08, 6:59pm

It doesnt matter now what this useless mal administration promises, and yes there will certainly be some little tit bits to soften us up for the next election. But it will all be in vain. This government has plagued us all with overspending and poor administration that has cost us all very dear. As a country we are heading for disaster and as individuals we are all heading for financial ruin, poor services and being constantly taken for a ride by corrupt politicians.
I for one have had enough and no matter what Mr Brown and his fogeys promise I will not belive. A government without mandate and a daming vote of no confidence from the public, how long will he have the audacity to cling on?

• Posted by: Russell42 • Report Comment

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WHERE HAVE ALL OUR TAXES GONE? - LONG TIME SPENT

07.05.08, 6:29pm

wish to know what Brown has done with all my taxes -
With some of the figures from DWP and Home office sites below could answer a tiny amount:-
£13.5 million to house 10,000 immigrants in 2006
£75 million for gov depts to monitor immigration
£3 billion lost in benefit errors
£100 million on drug addict benefits
£300 million lost to benefit cheats
£1.5 billion on legal aid to immigrants
£30 million detention costs
£38 million on work permits to immigrants
£6.1 million on new detention centres
£1.6 billion on overseas aid
Try questioning Brown on some of these figures
AND HE WAN'TS MORE TAXES TO SPEND ON THE ABOVE?

• Posted by: noway • Report Comment

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LIFE IN THE UK

07.05.08, 5:59pm

taxed tot he limit ! i am a single mother of one daughter in college,i am working my wages pay the rent and coucil tax(cant get council) private land lord ,so we live on 120 week tax credits and child beneifts,this being for food clothes tv licnece,gas electric,fare to worka nd college,cant afford to heat my home properly in the winter,this is an english working family,we living below the poverty line,and i would like to add tot hia that i dont solilize smoke or drink! cant even jion the local leisure centre £35 a month.but if i was refugee £17,lol makes u wonder doesnt it,no wonder so many are moving outside the country i would myself if possible.the ses pit of europe here

• Posted by: angel702001 • Report Comment

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HOUSEHOLD BILLS ONLY SWALLOW UP 31%??????

07.05.08, 5:46pm

Cost of paying utilities , mortgage, household bills etc swallowed up, up from 25% to 31% !?!?!?

What planet are these people on. I have never known mine or anyone else come to that who has 50% let alone 69% -75% of their income left after paying household bills. MP's would but not the average man in the street. MP's MUST HAVE 100% OF THEIR INCOME LEFT AFTER WE PAY ALL OF THEIR EXPENSES.

How lovely that would be if we all had half of our income left to spend as we like. No wonder Gordon thinks there's plenty of room left to tax us yet.

• Posted by: Jac16 • Report Comment

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THE ONLY THING BROWN NEEDS TO DO IS RESIGN

07.05.08, 4:53pm

"Astonishingly, Mr Brown is said to have shrugged off the concern and remained inexplicably upbeat about Labour’s prospects – despite last week’s local election drubbing."
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Yes, this is precisely the problem.
This unelected and immensely unpopular PM is so convinced that he is superman and knows all the answers that he dismisses everything ANYONE else says, even his party colleagues.
And that is why he has to go.
It is absolutely a fact that most of the working population are sick up to here with relentless punishing taxes on top of more punishing taxes.

• Posted by: TrevorD • Report Comment

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TAXED TO THE HILT!

07.05.08, 3:39pm

GOVERNMENT THE MAIN CULPRIT!

With the oil price at near-record highs and Shell and BP declaring record profits last week, there are various truckloads of drivel about the oil majors being ruthless profiteers doing the rounds at the moment. But who’s really raking in the money?

Let’s start with a multiple-choice question.

With the oil price above $100 a barrel, who makes the most money out of a gallon of petrol at the pump? Is it:

A. Greedy oil companies.
B. Greedy Opec members.
C. Our glorious Government.

You don’t really answer to that, do you?

Who makes all the money from petrol? Well, something like 75% of the price you pay at the pump makes its way to whichever hard drive our government currently keeps its coffers in. Then of course those record profits that BP and Shell declared will mean record levels of juicy corporate tax.

Then there are those nice, taxable dividends that are being paid out to shareholders. And those thousands - or is it millions? - of people that BP and Shell employ all pay lovely income tax and NI. Then there’s tax on all the money the refiners make, and the explorers, and the transporters, and the traders and the petrochemical companies …

Yet the government still runs record budget deficits.

Note:

This is an abstract taken from Money Morning, which is gratefully acknowledged.

• Posted by: Nalin • Report Comment

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ENGLAND NEEDS YOUR HELP NOW!

07.05.08, 3:06pm

HELP, HELP, HELP!

S.O.S., S.O.S., S.O.S.!

OUT, OUT, OUT!

EU REFERENDUM NOW!

GENERAL ELECTION NOW!

• Posted by: Kansenji • Report Comment

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TAXED TO THE LIMIT

07.05.08, 2:05pm

Gordon Brown is listening to no one and certainly not the people of this country.
Gordon you are not up for the job you are acting like a spoilt child wanting your own way by stamping your feet

Get a grip of your suitcase and leave

• Posted by: maidinengland • Report Comment

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TAXED ON EVERYTHING

07.05.08, 1:15pm

I find it hard to believe that we are letting him get away with this.
What will he tax us on next?
Maybe the air that we beathe ?
Any fresh air in Britain must be taxable !
Oh dear,
I hope that I haven't given him any ideas.!

• Posted by: millieC • Report Comment

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