Do you think this year's Budget makes sense? What good is another 40p a week to a family of four? Why does he always increase tax on tobacco but never hard liquor? If you own a 4x4 will you sell it?
I would rather he slapped a 200% tax on new model cars (there are too many cars on the road; shouldn't we recycle the ones we have?), slapped an even bigger tax on 4x4s unless you -actually- use them on a farm (and have to provide proof), halved the military budget, and spent the excess on improving rural public transportation, paying teachers and nurses the salaries they deserve, and making a cushion to take the increasing cost to the NHS for care of the elderly. But that's perhaps a bit too radical.
40p a week will most definitely NOT help this particular family of four. Don't know about the rest of them!
It's all spin to grease his entry into the orifice of PM.
No increase on whiskey from Mr Brown the Scotsman man...now why could that be?
and how does labour cope with the spiraling problems in the NHS?
Easy just don't mention the NHS in the budget at all and it will hopefully disappear.
hehe....my daughter gets a few hundred pounds when she's 7. She was in hospital a couple of months ago after suffering a seizure and they forgot to feed her - she's two. These are same people who are in charge of educating our children. Good move on the 4x4 duty, though. Maybe they should introduce a vehicle extermination duty...that'd get the chucks of crap off the roads.
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Dennett
A close friend of mine has been told that unless she has three miscarriages in a row she wont get a special drug/hormone supplement to help stop a fourth miscarriage. I am absolutely f**king funimg about this, as I know that in the States this drug would given automatically after the first.
Very salient point, justyn. Whilst I was a student at Uni I qualified for low-income access to healthcare, meaning the happy pills I was on at the time were free. As soon as I got out into the working world again (and had to pay 1/4 of my salary for health insurance), the 'prescription fee' for the same happy pills rose to forty bucks a bottle (and that was after the insurance 'paid' for part of it). So I unprescribed myself.
There's nothing more mind-teasing than the incomprehensible eagerly avowed -
Dennett