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The Budget.
Good for booze/cig smugglers - not sure about the rest of us. Drinking out will get more expensive - so more people will stock up in ASDA or go to Calais and drink more at home. The big increase in duty on alcohol really highlights how short-sighted Labour is.
Life is becoming more and more expensive for a lot of ordinary hard-working people and Labour is doing nothing to help.
The way things are going flying, owning a car and being able to enjoy a few drinks out will become the preserve of the rich. (Investment bankers getting record bonuses can continue to fly first class to the Caribbean, drive a Range Rover around London and enjoy £500 bottles of champagne in a Mayfair club every Friday).
Labour really has to go.
Good for booze/cig smugglers - not sure about the rest of us. Drinking out will get more expensive - so more people will stock up in ASDA or go to Calais and drink more at home. The big increase in duty on alcohol really highlights how short-sighted Labour is.
Life is becoming more and more expensive for a lot of ordinary hard-working people and Labour is doing nothing to help.
The way things are going flying, owning a car and being able to enjoy a few drinks out will become the preserve of the rich. (Investment bankers getting record bonuses can continue to fly first class to the Caribbean, drive a Range Rover around London and enjoy £500 bottles of champagne in a Mayfair club every Friday).
Labour really has to go.
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Most people I know smoke rollies. I've pretty much quit, only smoke occasionally every now and then so it doesn't really affect me. But, I really can't see the logic in continually upping duty on cigs - I'm guessing it's esp true in the South of England but so, so many people smoke cigs from Europe...
When I used to smoke, I preferred to smoke rollies....mainly because of the cost factor but I also started just preferring the taste.
In Thailand I took up smoking again because they were just so cheap and tempting when I was drunk...I didn't bother with rollies, just bought straights cos they were so cheap.... In Laos I found a brand of fags that cost 5,000 lao kip for a pack of 20....that is about 1p! So I smoked them all the time, didn't taste bad either!
Given up again now I'm home though.
With the current world economic climate this budget was never going to bring anything particularly surprising, but the govt' has to make money from somewhere. I doubt very much you'd find any other party does anything better. Except maybe in the way of false promises made to get into power.
I can't believe I've just written something in support of a New Labour budget...
Especially as it was a bit shit.
Why no abolition of Road Tax and levy on fuel instead
Why no closing of tax loopholes for the rich, yet the abolition of 10p rate stays... for example.
When things are tight and you cannot offer much in the way of tax dodges to confuse the poor then at least do something radical FFS
Someone at the Treasury would do well to take a look at the back of the new £20 notes. It features Adam Smith, a brilliant economist. His two main principles were that tax should be easy to collect, and easy to understand for those expected to pay. If our treasury followed these principles, life would become a lot easier for all of us.
Actually no, I won't. I'll blame every single CotE for decades because they are the ones which have perpetuated the system for so long.
Simplified tax system is not in their interests because it's transparaent and then it would become clear who we should really target. Trust me it isn't the poor "dole cheats".
I was surprised with the announcement the government would fine supermarkets who didn't charge customers for plastic bags though. Didn't think the government had the balls to deify the powerful supermarket lobby.
Oh, and let's all not forget that the increase in income tax for poor people from the last budget comes in this April. :thumb: :rolleyes:
The green taxes are meaning secondhand cars with large engines are plummeting in value.
Who do you think will make a change, Dis? Do you seriously propose I vote for Cameron, or the bloody Liberals? This is the stagnation Democracy provides us with... and why I oppose it. Neither of the two options would make the slightest bit of difference. They wouldn't change a thing. And you know it. I know it too.
Also, yeah. It'll be like 1950 again. But without war. WE WON'T AFFORD ANYTHING! YES!
All we need now, is Revlution. The effects of this budget might just provide that spark...:chin: Excuse me. I must don my Uniform and start a march.
As for the budget - alcohol has been getting gradually cheaper for years, this is a good move which wont really effect anyone in any harsh way - except if you are drinking way too much.
But as Man of Kent rightly points out, this is a nothing to the move which will see poor people pay more taxation because of the removal of the 10% rate.
A lot of them could. Everyone I know who gets it could be working, if they wanted to. Doesn't help that they publish the criteria for receiving incapacity benefit on the internet either.
Apparently from 2009 they'll be bringing up the road tax for 'middle of the road' cars as well, though not as much as the top band.
Because the rising cost of public transport is greater than the rising cost of cars
Huh?
That is going to really hit low paid workers. They should have put the starting rate before you start paying tax up to compensate but they extended it by £210 from £5225 to £5435. With the amount the minimum wage has gone up over the last few years (which is one of the few Labour policies I like) even more people are going to be paying tax.
Its been widly said that if you earn less then £15K a year gross you are going to be worse off from the 5th April.
No it equals a cheaper option.
But much as I hate to agree with SG that's not what Aladdin sais
which is different from that the cost of car travel is becomign cheaper relative to the cost of using public transport