General Chat

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

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 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

as usual

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

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

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

Roy

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

and we need more fraud officers
theres way to may fiddlers out there
scrounging off the country

i have no objections to working while my hubby is asleep at night
as it is i do some community work
putting back a little into my country

I don't think more fraud officers is the answer to people on the fiddle,

The government does not have a cupboard full of money to give to any one fiddling or people who need the cash through benefits

We that is every one who pay tax and even those who through no fault of their own rely on benefits of any description we all pay tax,

every time you buy any thing their is tax on it at some point so we all pay some thing.

But if some one you no is not due to benefits they are not steeling from the government they are steeling from us all

We all have a duty to report any one we no to be fiddling

it's no difference to them taking money from your purse/wallet

Roy

Roy,
It's not just the rich that pay taxes it's also the pensioners that are still paying taxes.

I still have to pay tax on my state pension,private pensions.
but I don't get any other help like some pensioners as I am just 10p over the amount.

If I hadn't paid married woman's stamp from the 60's I would be able to claim Housing benefit,Council Tax benefit and tax credits.

So please don't say it's just the rich that are paying Taxes.
Sue

Sue, i never said it's just the rich who pay taxes

And i do no where you are coming from with your pension, my dad still alive and is in the same boat as you


He lives in an old folks bungalow complex and because he had a small private pension it took him just over where he needed to be for benefits to help with council tax and housing benefit and he is the only pensioner on the estate who has to pay in full for everything


Roy

Think the government should look into and quickly the perks and huge expenses the Civil Service rack up especially on credit cards - big black hole there - just as bad if not worse than the benefit frauds.

Afraid the NHS is the biggest black hole. the 5th biggest employer in the world with 1.7 million employees. 106 billion a year - now thats a black hole and a half. All to be paid for by the taxpayer.

and speaking from experience of working in the NHS - far too many chiefs and nowhere near enough Indians - get rid of the chiefs and the service will be just as good

This is just a query. In our area anyone who lives alone, regardless of financial circumstances is entitled to a reduction of 25% on their Council Tax . Is this not throughout England or just down to each Council?-jl