We keep accepting tax after tax on everything! Or is like the miners who complained or asked for more that Maggie did the only thing and closed the mines so there was nothing to strike for!
Do we all like giving over 80% in tax for fuel to the government?
Do we all like to pay more to drive mile by mile after paying road tax when only 10% of road tax goes back to maintaiin the roads!
The list is endless!
A nation of moaners but no complainers!
2006-12-01 07:12:38 · 18 answers · asked by deeky_ward 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Apathetic and gullible!! It appears we are prepared to accept everything the Goverment dishes out. Its about time we got of our backsides and started shouting loud!!! Did you know you probably pay more council tax than Mr Blair? If you live in Hackney, in a normal flat, you'll pay more Council Tax than the Prime Minister, who lives in a luxurious home in central London!
That's true if you live in Haringey, Richmond, Newcastle, Blackpool… - in fact, it's true if you live in any of 175 different council areas up and down the country.
And even if you pay less than Mr Blair - whose annual bill is £1318 - you'll probably still find you pay a higher proportion of your income than the Prime Minister.
Living in Downing Street and earning £183,932 a year (not to mention his wife's income, for her book and her "charitable" speeches!), Blair pays just 0.7 % of his income in Council Tax.
But a pensioner living in Brent, in a band D flat, on an average pension of £13,000 a year pays £1,239 a year - a whopping 9.5% of his income!! Like you say, the list is endless.If we have to pay mile by mile, it will be cheaper to stay at home!! What about those on low incomes,they still have to work. If they have to pay the extra charges, it would probably cripple them financially.
We must also remember,wages are not rising at the same rate as the tax increases.Labours motto........"things can only get better"!! Comedians!!!
2006-12-01 08:27:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Your quite right we love to moan but do nothing about it. And while we do nothing it will continue.
Not too long in the future, the powers that be will say " I can't understand why we have so many homeless people its such a terrible shame. But we are unable to help them without putting up the tax" and we will know it's probably the tax that got them there in the first place. I think they call it catch 22.
2006-12-03 12:40:22 · answer #2 · answered by she shaw sea shore 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We need to get our backbone back and stand up and rebel remember the government is supposed to represent the people not the other way round.
If everyone stuck together and said no to all this tax they would have to back down they can't arrest everyone in the country and failing that revolution maybe not such a bad idea the way things are going...
2006-12-02 04:14:26 · answer #3 · answered by delta9 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lets all get together as a nation and fix our government by voting the sh!ts out,,surely there must be a party for the people that tax our **** off,,charge us twice for using the roads,,that won't spy on us with their cameras,,the country is going down the pooper,,pretty soon we will not be able to wish people a Merry Christmas,,vote Tony and his Tonettes out,,they have completely shagged this country and will continue to do so,,if we keep voting them in,,it's time to put this country right again
2006-12-01 08:24:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
theres 15 million imigrints in since 1995, noticed the decline?
the taxes on cars and pollution is bollocks, the earthwarms up natually.- infact this auctum was the warmest in 80 years, so technically its been quite cool lately (last few years). the trees are more than capable of breathing carbon dioxcide so, bollicks to emmsions, medical supplies cost a bomb, so the fat cat gets extra, the MPs are taking the piss, i am now acucused of money landering because i wanted to deposit £1000 into my own back acount (Xmas present from father) and then im being told i cant smoke in my own ******* car! whens the riots? oh and this is not abuse, this is how it is!
2006-12-03 05:25:36 · answer #5 · answered by fantomcat_2k 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We bl***y well are thick. Fleeced to death. This one will make you laugh: They want people to start paying to use the roads.
Now, our parents and grandparents have paid fully for all these things and we are paying tax for maintaining them and other indirect taxes like fines, fuel and road taxes. So they must think we are the biggest morons this side of the Milky Way!
2006-12-01 12:37:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The British public are "conditioned" soft and un-organised.
This situation could not happen in France where the people are very conscious of government actions and "go onto the streets" in mass protest. It works and the laws are repealed.
We need a change in public attitude to politicians and government - we pay them and vote for them to carry our actions we want, not what they want.
Democracy - Government of the people by the people - have we got that?
We should demand it!
2006-12-02 20:31:28 · answer #7 · answered by ian d 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its not gullible as what you thinking of the situation,try to ask the law maker to pass that bill in parliamentary whos the author on that, it might be good for fiscal adequacy of the country thats why you can complain on that , the prime minister come and go but that law in tax is still there and it be added as much as members of parliament pass or authored bill in terms of fiscal matters......
2006-12-01 19:01:45 · answer #8 · answered by mario t. reoyan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We certainly are guilty of that. Ken Livingstone increases the London congestion charge to 8 quid and stretches the are further west and no one cares. At least the french stand up for themselves, I quite often hear of strikes, mass protests and highway barracades
2006-12-02 05:24:04 · answer #9 · answered by Virg 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes,we certainly are gullible,we let the present government ride roughshod over us,we also allow ourselves be dictated to by our "friends" in europe who rob us blind.We also,I am ashamed to say, have become the mecca for freeloaders from anywhere on earth.Surely this can't be tolerated for much longer!
2006-12-01 07:32:26 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋