General Chat

Joy, From your post am i right in thinking that you think the government should provide JOBS?

Because the government is not their to employ people, but it is their task to provide a climate where jobs can be created,

If you take more tax from the rich to give to the poor all this does is create a climate where the welfare state gets bigger and the amount of people paying eg, the rich gets smaller and so that is not sustainable because the rich leave and take their money with them.

For every extra pound of tax the rich pay, that is a pound that the rich cannot invest in jobs

the tax cuts Osbourne has given to the less well off will help most people in this country,

and the rich end up paying less on their income will give them the extra cash to create more jobs, but overall they will end up paying more tax


Roy

Muffy

of that 4000+ spent on welfare, that includes Old Age Pension, Disability Allowances (both of which are the largest portions taken from this amount) and in that same article it also stated that the of the 4000+ the amount spent on the Unemployment Benefits etc., was less than a quarter of that.

Interesting site from The Guardian. It tells you how much you pay per day for various services according to your taxable income.

I think I'd like to pay less tax and decide for myself where some of my money goes....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2012/mar/20/budget-2012-how-taxes-spent-interactive?newsfeed=true

First thing I'd do is get rid of child benefit altogether.

Gwynne

we need more help for the lower paid
we need jobs for the poor run by the government
toilet rolls sanitary wear dressings for the hospitals
and things we all use tooth paste ect
there's plenty of old disused factories they could convert
and they could be run on a small profit basis

provinding jobs for all

No Joy is not a high rate tax payer, Roy, nor am I. We are both full time carers for our OH's. We will NOT benefit in any way from this budget.

On the bigger issue of economic growth...it's not going to happen with those policies.

People tend to forget that apart from the PAYE Tax, there are others as well one of them being VAT.this is all extra. :-S

Joy, I take it that you are a high rate tax payer then?

Roy

I read yesterday that for someone earning £50 000 a year,they pay
£14,183 in tax ..of which £4,727.67 is spent on welfare.

HAS to be more closely looked at for sure ! x

as usual

he has robbed us of our eyeballs
and come back for the sockets

i think it was pretty fair,

and i think the banishing the child benefit for higher earners is a fab idea,

and i love the extra hours on a sunday

Meant to listen in but I have one of mine home not well so I don't think she would've sat through it lol .....will catch the bullet points of it later x

I think this is the best budget i have seen since Ken Clark in the 90's

considering the sh*t we are in well done Mr Osbourne

Just listening to the opposition trying to trash it

Roy