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General Category => Politics => Topic started by: Pete on March 19, 2012, 06:40:24 PM
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Only picked up on a couple of things - 50p tax rate to be dropped to 40p to help the struggling rich - and Osborne to propose plan to pay lower salaries to public sector workers in poorer parts of the country.
With prices rising all the time surely there should be some provision to help the folks at the bottom end of the scale.
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Apparently Hackney Taxi Fares are also going up in April ;D
So that's me and Our_Lass on another pay drop :(
Current contract prices don't increase. We just get less customers.
Back to the budget . . . . . . .
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Licensing Committee agreed the fares the drivers requested through their representatives
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I know Slacker, I wasn't disputing that.
Back to the budget > . . . . .
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Bus fares not going up as far as I know - does anyone know any different?
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Osborne to propose plan to pay lower salaries to public sector workers in poorer parts of the country...
That one might be interesting - MPs are public sector workers, aren't they? ;D
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They are and they will tell you they work in London!!!!
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Only picked up on a couple of things - 50p tax rate to be dropped to 40p to help the struggling rich - and Osborne to propose plan to pay lower salaries to public sector workers in poorer parts of the country.
With prices rising all the time surely there should be some provision to help the folks at the bottom end of the scale.
Maybe thats why he's changing the rules about public sector pay. A recent report showed big differences between public and private around the country. I think the worse area was Wales where the average public sector employee was earning about 18% more than the bloke next door working for a private company...surely that can't be seen as fair can it?
Also, minimum wage has just been increased by 11p per hour.
Its also expected the tax threshold will increase, (with a nod towards the lib dems), by much more than is usual, so again helping those at the bottom proportionately more than the well off.
As for the 50p rate, most think it will get cut to 45p. But ignore the headlines and look at the evidence. Theres mountains of evidence throughout modern times, and across the world showing that a lower tax rate brings in more revenue. Increasing the tax rate just encourages the rich to use loop holes or take their money elsewhere. I saw a good example of this the other day on the news when the owner of Hull City threatened to take his money to Holland where the tax rate is much less unless it was reduced in the budget. And this is the man who has just donated £100K to the labour party after a love-in with Ed Milliband....that sort of attitude hardly helps the poor!
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Looking at it again today it looks a bit crap for the pensioners. They've little or no help from this government and with the way utility bills, food prices, etc are rising we'll probably start building alms houses again.
What a vile lot this government are. Osborne is a creep. So is Cameron and his bent friends.
*shudder*
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I may be wrong here, I usually am.
No increase on alcohol tax.
Apart from the mandatory 5% increase above inflation. That means 7p on a pint ???
Fags up by 37p per pack of 20. :o
Still 3p per gallon on fuel in August :-X
Income tax level increased to nearly £10000, £9250 actually, but not till April 2013 >:(
Wheehaay, nice budget.
Dont ask about the cuts in pensioners losses :'( :'( :'(
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I may be wrong here, I usually am.
No increase on alcohol tax.
Apart from the mandatory 5% increase above inflation. That means 7p on a pint ???
Fags up by 37p per pack of 20. :o
Still 3p per gallon on fuel in August :-X
Income tax level increased to nearly £10000, £9250 actually, but not till April 2013 >:(
Wheehaay, nice budget.
Dont ask about the cuts in pensioners losses :'( :'( :'(
Sounds about right. He really should have done something with fuel. A 30p per litre price drop should get this country moving again.
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Bus fares not going up as far as I know - does anyone know any different?
I do now- going up by at least 10p. Not too bad - not gone up for at least 12 months. Diesel and eyerything else has.
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Sounds about right. He really should have done something with fuel. A 30p per litre price drop should get this country moving again.
Absolutely, no other policy would be so welcomed by rich and poor, business and personal. (and the media). And have so much widespread benefit, even if some off that cost was recovered elsewhere. Such a shame that he didn't have the balls to do it. (My only worry would be that the greedy oil companys would keep prices high and inflate their margins, which they did to some extent last year.)
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>> My only worry would be that the greedy oil companys would keep prices high and inflate their margins, which they did to some extent last year.
On the button there mate.