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    #21
    Originally posted by Cyberman View Post
    I then had to live off my savings for two years, whereas other people with no savings, who have probably never made any attempt to work or save can claim for year after year and then fake illness and go onto validity benefit.
    It sucks.

    IMO people should have recorded amount of tax they paid, and everyone gets benefits unless amount on this account is very low - in this case you have to take any job that comes around or work for charities, clean streets etc.

    But this won't happen under Govt that claims to redistribute incomes while in effect wasting those incomes.

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      #22
      Originally posted by AtW View Post
      But this won't happen.

      Lucky for you. I bet you'd make a crap street cleaner.

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        #23
        Originally posted by Sockpuppet View Post
        Lucky for you. I bet you'd make a carp street cleaner.
        I'd be brilliant. Just like in everything else I do.

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          #24
          Originally posted by AtW View Post
          I'd be brilliant. Just like in everything else I do.

          Isn't it time for you to leave the board again in a huff...for a few months at least?

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            #25
            Originally posted by Sockpuppet View Post
            Isn't it time for you to leave the board again in a huff...for a few months at least?
            Why?

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              #26
              Originally posted by Sockpuppet View Post
              Isn't it time for you to leave the board again in a huff...for a few months at least?
              No doubt he will when he slips even further down the CUK posters list

              A good bout of insomnia from Diver over a couple of days ought to do it.

              Unless he goes off in a sulk when someone else hits 10000 posts
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                #27
                Look - we all know that honest hardworking taxpayers get screwed in this country. The benefits go to those who are either very rich, or very lazy, or very foreign.

                But you can't change that, it's just the way this Benefit Nation operates... so the only option is to up and leave. Here in the UK you are but a criminal for earning more than the average man, and you are made to feel as though you owe the government for their own incompetance. You are penalised for working hard and wanting to improve your standard of living.

                Plan your departure in plenty of time, and take your horde of cash and your valuable skillset to somewhere where it will be appreciated.

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                  #28
                  Originally posted by TazMaN View Post
                  Look - we all know that honest hardworking taxpayers get screwed in this country. The benefits go to those who are either very rich, or very lazy, or very foreign.

                  But you can't change that, it's just the way this Benefit Nation operates... so the only option is to up and leave. Here in the UK you are but a criminal for earning more than the average man, and you are made to feel as though you owe the government for their own incompetance. You are penalised for working hard and wanting to improve your standard of living.

                  Plan your departure in plenty of time, and take your horde of cash and your valuable skillset to somewhere where it will be appreciated.
                  My payslip was on my desk this morning. On opening it I've found that total deductions this month are just under £6.5k and I'm a staffer FFS!

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                    #29
                    Originally posted by Churchill View Post
                    My payslip was on my desk this morning. On opening it I've found that total deductions this month are just under £6.5k and I'm a staffer FFS!
                    Eh? Unless I'm still p1ssed from the continuous 4 day drinking binge I've been on, from your message I gather that:
                    - You're permie
                    - You earned £16k last month and hence paid £6.5k in tax

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                      #30
                      Originally posted by TazMaN View Post
                      Eh? Unless I'm still p1ssed from the continuous 4 day drinking binge I've been on, from your message I gather that:
                      - You're permie
                      - You earned £16k last month and hence paid £6.5k in tax
                      I earn that every couple of minutes.

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