It's a load of cobblers.Most of the best bits don't happen for two or three years.
2007-03-21 11:10:31 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Government
An absolute pile of vote and headline (that the news agencies believed incl. BBC, Reuters etc) grabbing tosh.
viz
2p on a litre of petrol when it has already gone above 90p in most areas?!
Abolishing 10p tax rate (cost £9bn), reducing 22p to 20p (cost about £1b) and introducing 20p across the board (gain £10bn [funny that])
Not introducing actual grants/policies for micro-generation, just asking OF-it will take us ages and several million £s-GEM to "look at it".
Not abolishing inheritance theft... sorry "tax"
Not raising the threshold on stamp duty substantially and also introducing more help for low-income single people to get on housing (this is how I pay for my old age) ladder
The poxy help for pensioners
For not introducing a 50% tax bracket for super-earners
No windfall tax on excessive profits i.e. Tesco, all the banks, oil companies (how do they make money when their main product is taxed at about 90%?!)
No extra money to give nurses, midwives and junior teachers a decent wage
Not introducing a radical overhaul of the council tax
2007-03-21 12:40:02 · answer #1 · answered by MPatrinos 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
WHAT ABOUT THE WORKERS.
Did you know that the whole tax budget was £115Bil. when labour came to power.
Stealth tax alone is now £119 Bil. then there is the normal tax raised on top of that.
They are robbing us blind. Yet they bring the basic rate down and everybody thinks great.
In the 70's we paid 33% basic and were better off.
Very low version of council tax, Interest of your home mortgage taken of your pay before taxing,free eyeglasses.free prescriptions.
VAT at almost half what it is now,Pensioners got a fair deal. This was before the Tories sold all of the housing stock so there was housing for all and if not houses only cost around £15000.
By the way this WAS a Labour govt.
Never again will I vote Labour.
2007-03-21 23:05:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
It's the usual political trick to give the public(the voters) the illusion that they are getting something. Will people forget the vast sums this expert on 'smoke and mirrors' has taken from us in the past ten years?. 'Mick the' would have a point if we had good public services but a realistic examination of policing,NHS etc tells us that is not the case and look at the scandal of the lack of proper medical treatment for our military returning from Afghanistan and Iraq.
2007-03-21 21:37:31 · answer #3 · answered by Rob Roy 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Um no Ian - none of them ever do i've got given up hoping some years in the past - they provide and that they take - the present chancer is extra of a taker *eats yet another creme egg as convenience*
2016-11-27 20:30:34 · answer #4 · answered by llerena 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm going to be £95 per annum worse off before indirect taxation. If you are single with no children earning less than £17k per annum then there are not really that many good bits. According to the news at least 1 in 5 people are now worse off as a result.
2007-03-21 11:25:43 · answer #5 · answered by sanchia 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
It is a load of rubbish like the Labour party. They are a load of crooks. They have made the Rich Richer and the poor poorer. If I had the money I would of got away from rip off Britain a long time ago.
2007-03-21 12:05:01 · answer #6 · answered by CT 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Brown has given with one hand and taken with the other yet he tells us it's a generous budget. I am so bored with this Government's spin and deceipt. We soon found out Blair told fibs over Iraq well if this is an indication of how open and honest Brown is Lord help us if or when he becomes our leader.
2007-03-21 22:02:04 · answer #7 · answered by Captain Sarcasm 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
He isn't doing anything to rock the boat at the moment - the supposed tax cuts are all clawed back in other ways but at least he might manage a few efficiency savings from taking Conservative policy and implementing it.
He hasn't done anything to solve the regulatory burden he has imposed and he hasn't tackled the smothering level of overall taxation.
Can Brown have it all ways? I think people have the measure of him.
2007-03-21 11:34:59 · answer #8 · answered by LongJohns 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The "best bits" won't happen either,they will be "swallowed up by other increases. Mr Brown NEVER gives anything away! The promises of "next year" are just to keep you voting Labour!!! Smoke and mirrors trick!!! Be s*cked in at your peril !!!
2007-03-21 12:26:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
A load of crap.
didnt do anything for me, a part-time worker with gets no help. I was hoping he would extend working tax credits to part time workers.
2007-03-21 11:21:49 · answer #10 · answered by phil 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋