After Osbourne's attack on IT contractors

[BrilloPad]

7 pages of disagreement and not a single ban. Either the mods are slacking or CUK is not what it used to be.

[suityou01]

I suppose I could go through and dig out your many leaving for good posts, but in truth I'd rather not. There's more than a few who saw your homophobic hate post that led to your last exit post.

As I said serial liar.

If you choose to read homophobia into two disconnected statements, then please do it in the privacy of your own feeble mind.

I for one do not wish to be labelled such, and would ask you to cease and desist immediately.

[Zero Liability]

Possibly on the basis that tax is not a purchase price, so what you pay is not related to what you get personally.

But I never even introduced that as a concept in the bits you quoted. The closer it functioned to a purchase price, the better it would be, though.

[PurpleGorilla]

With stuff like bus passes, is it not the case that it would cost too much to manage the means testing, and it's cheaper just to give all eligible people the bus pass?

You want a bus pass - ok give me your driving licence.

[suityou01]

7 pages of disagreement and not a single ban. Either the mods are slacking or CUK is not what it used to be.

The mods are not what they used to be. I pine for Scotspine.

[OwlHoot]

Great stuff, once you have paid your education costs, saved the massive deposit for a house, and paid the tab for your parents credit card binge, you can pay your own sick pay, from your magic bean savings.

I guess they'll have to call it "National Insurance Insurance"

[Zero Liability]

Lets be fair. They printed loads more money then kept it to themselves. Except for paying their cleaners.

Not quite the same as taking other people's money.

Actually, indirectly their policies led to commodity shortages and so massive food inflation so maybe you are right...

They did it with the blessings and active encouragement of the political class, as it's a subtle way of goosing GDP via credit expansion and also because they keep govt debt cheap by exercising demand for it via OMO and similar conduits.

[DimPrawn]

It's good to see everyone banding together and facing the common enemy.....

[TykeMerc]

With stuff like bus passes, is it not the case that it would cost too much to manage the means testing, and it's cheaper just to give all eligible people the bus pass?

Probably considerably more expensive financially as well as politically to do the means testing.

[sartois]

If the alternative is to go permie then I'll stick with what I have thanks. Don't we get some of this back from the higher tax band being raised and corporation tax being reduced (eventually) anyway? Also if I went back to permie I wouldn't be able to profit from the flat rate of VAT, nor would I be able to fund my little work related gadget addiction tax free as I do now.

Way too many positives for me to consider any alternatives.. unless of course Labour get in at the next election and decide to hike Corportation tax and lower the tax bands again.