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Family tax bill up 51%

THE tax burden has risen by 51 per cent under Labour and the average family now pays a crippling £20,700 a year, damning new research reveals.

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TAXED TILL MIDDLE ENGLAND BLEEDS

13.05.08, 7:48am

I sincerely hope that people think long and hard about the damage that New Labour and Gordon Brown has done not only to the Economy and the individual pockets, but to the very fabric of Britains Society through their inept policies.

• Posted by: EmperorMing • Report Comment

HOW THE CORRUPT STAY IN POWER!

12.05.08, 10:11pm

A Corrupt government run by un-skilled,un-qualified ministers stays in power throught the coercive threat and force of ever increasing taxes,by makingthe public poorer and more dependent on the state the Neo-Cons in government can make the public do whatever they want.

The only reason the politicians have any authority is because the public give it to them,the Neo-Cheaters biggest weapon is to create problems where there were none before so the public (only the ones dependent on the government) look to them to come to the rescue with sound good ideas that have no real value or of little help,and therefore continue the smoke screen that the politicians are needed!!!.

The twoings that a socialist neo-cheating government fear the most is an electorate that is educated and financially independent of the government(hence the destruction of the education system and the ever increasing taxes).!!!!!!!!

• Posted by: jonG • Report Comment

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WHAT IS WRONG WITH JOURNALISTS?

12.05.08, 8:24pm

In 1997 you could predict that Labour would be all tax & spend.
The stealth taxes & their level were well understood in the last election.
Journalists were lauding Brown as the best chancellor ever & praising him untill 3-4 months ago.
Many of the British people voted for a Labour encore.
What is wrong with journalists & the voters?
They all believed the spin form Downing Street without checking the facts.
The journalists went on freebie breakfasts & lunches believing in the purile spin. Anyone who voted Labour not only want their heads examined--but it's now too late. Blair & Brown have damaged England beyond repair--all for their own selfish ends.
Our tax levels will never return to acceptable levels, public services are beyond the sticking plaster of stupid Labour, immigration cannot be reversed----are you ashamed--you should be!

• Posted by: RegainDemocracy • Report Comment

FAMILY TAX BELL UP 51%

12.05.08, 11:20am

Grabbing Gordon wont stop pinching our hard earned money he needs to go now.
Inflation doesn't affect Grabbing Gordon he just puts it all on expences.
He is a disgrace

• Posted by: maidinengland • Report Comment

EU PARASITE

12.05.08, 11:16am

It's about time we stopped paying so much of our hard earned cash into CORRUPT Europe.
We were conned into a 'common market' by Traitor Heath in the 1970's but now we know the truth we should be allowed a referendum on continuing membership. There is a whole generation who have not had their say on this matter yet they are burdoned by the massive payout to the criminally corrupt EU with its overpaid MEPs.
Our MPs will not let us do this because that is where their career path lies (excuse the pun), you only have to look at LOSER Kinnock and his family to see the benefits for a small minority. They wouldn't dare risk losing that gig.

• Posted by: jonocynic9 • Report Comment

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HOW RIGHT YOU ARE ALEX

12.05.08, 11:14am

Our kids crippled with debt while this govt gives away billions to useless projects.
Not only our graduate children but the ones with a house, their own children and bills to pay.
Did the govt not stop to give a moments thought ,as it was implementing tax after tax, to the very real risk of rising house prices, rising mortgage rates, rising electricity, gas , and food bills, and what this would mean for the average family ?
Of course not.
Gordon Brown once said the economy was fixed for good. Only a fool would think anything was ever permanent.

• Posted by: marigold • Report Comment

BAD CHANCELLOR-MOST EVIL PRIME MINISTER-MUST GO

12.05.08, 10:57am

This report confirms what we all know and feel. The evil and unelected Brown has lost no opportunity to fleece us in his ten years as chancellor and now he has his Darling marrionette to carry on the dirty work while he pulls the strings. This is a miserable government led by a miserable, incompetent, unelected prime minister who, by his actions , has made life a misery for all. After robbing us Brown has then proceeded to squander his ill gotten gains. His incompetence and economic mismanagement has wasted taxpayers money on a scale never before seen. Taxpayers have paid more and more for less and less while Brown has been feathering nests for himself and his muppets. This tax squeeze will not stop until the evil Brown is removed from office.

• Posted by: Dorsetrambler • Report Comment

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NO SURPRISE!!!

12.05.08, 9:58am

This report contains nothing new which the public do not know.

It is the public apathy which has enabled this UK Taliban Government to fleece the public everyday with their stealth taxes.

This report does not take into account the fines imposed, most of the time on innocent old citizens, for littering, bin taxes, CCTV and Talivan (a mafia style CCTV dodgy vans equipped with CCTV cameras instead of machine guns and supported by the judiciary), etc.

The law enforcement agencies and the toothless watchdogs have been turned into this Taliban government revenue earning offices.

The police are used as body guards to protect these politicians and arrest innocent citizens whereas they do not have the guts to challenge the hardened criminals!

I am very pleased that the public is paying the price of their own foolishness for allowing these corrupt politicians in the House of Conmen!!

Rip off Britains!!!

• Posted by: Nalin • Report Comment

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TAX BURDEN UNDER LABOUR

12.05.08, 9:17am

Why don't us British workers and pensioners just pay all our wages and pensions direct to Gormless Brown's bank account? Most of it ends up there in the end.

We British workers and pensioners never see any benefit or improvement in our quality of life.

Gormless Brown always has plenty of dosh to dole out to his foreign cronies though.

Oh and don't forget that very large pay rise his MP's will shortly be voting themselves. Give Gormless three cheers and a slap on the back for that!


• Posted by: Peter_Pan • Report Comment

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SUPRISE SUPRISE

12.05.08, 8:59am

.....average family hit £20,700 a year.
We have to kick this a/hole government out Tout Suit!

• Posted by: TicToc • Report Comment

CHICKENS COMING HOME TO ROOST FOR NU-LAY-BAH

12.05.08, 8:57am

People have had their heads in the sand over this government probably due to higher house rises BUT THE PARTY'S OVER!!!!. False economy!!!!!. Now we learn the tax burden has risen massively with no improvement, with lots of waste and even cut backs in services.

Now people are waking up to the real scandal of Labour!

Brown is on route to destroy himself and make Labour unelectectable for a decade taking most of the worthless Labour MP's with him (apart from Frank field and one or two others). They have missed one major fundamental. Continue to tax the hard working (the majority of this country) and they group will turn on them.

Don't forget though our kids are now crippled with debts if they goto University but we waste and give away billions in silly worthless projects.

It is now dawning on people this goverment is shambolic and really does not care for the real hard working people of this country.

It's all spin and lies and nothing but nothing Brown or his cronies can say or do will now change that.

Cameron you now have an opportunity. PAY VERY CLOSE ATTENTION and Don't make the same mistakes!



• Posted by: Alex • Report Comment

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