Have your say - What would you like to see in Budget 2008?

[Diver]

1. 100% increase in tax on all Alcohol
   
2. 20% increase in fuel tax except HG vehicles
   
3. 100% increase in air/flying taxes
   
4. VAT added to children's designer clothing and footwear.
   
5. 100% increase in vat/Tax on takeaway food
   
6. null all tax on pensioners incomes from pension and savings schemes.

[DodgyAgent]

1. 100% increase in tax on all Alcohol
   
2. 20% increase in fuel tax except HG vehicles
   
3. 100% increase in air/flying taxes
   
4. VAT added to children's designer clothing and footwear.
   
5. 100% increase in vat/Tax on takeaway food
   
6. null all tax on pensioners incomes from pension and savings schemes.

phew, I could cope with an extra hit on my kids Gucci nappies, but having to take an extra hit on the cost of delivering them to my local sell fridges would be a step too far

[bogeyman]

Someone on BBC's Have Your Say made an interesting comment the other day about the budget (I paraphrase):

I'd like to see just one single measure that would improve the lives of single, working people with no kids.

Very good point I thought.

[DodgyAgent]

.I'd like to see just one single measure that would improve the lives of single, working people with no kids.

A free passport.

[MrRobin]

Someone on BBC's Have Your Say made an interesting comment the other day about the budget (I paraphrase):


Very good point I thought.

I saw that. It's now one of the most recommended comments.

[bogeyman]

A free passport.

Throw in a free airline ticket and I think you might have a winner.

[bogeyman]

I saw that. It's now one of the most recommended comments.

Yep. You are correct Sir:

http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thre...700&#paginator

Second most recommended.

[dang65]

I'd like to see just one single measure that would improve the lives of single, working people with no kids.

How could you possibly improve on that though?

[Diver]

What would I like to see?
1. Less spent on benefit and asylum seekers.
2. More spent on NHS, schools, armed forces, PROPER police (not CSO's) and less on computers and CCTV / speed cameras that CAN'T replace these people.
3. Less raiding of our income, make this up with less MP expenses!
4. Less fuel tax
5. Save money by not printing leaflets for councils in anything other than ENGLISH (the last time I looked that was the language of this country).
6. Less money spent on consultation.

[nervball], The pathetic PC Human Rights obsessed excuse for a country that used to be England, United Kingdom

Except for No 4

[bogeyman]

How could you possibly improve on that though?

By not having to pish a disproportionately large chunk of your earnings away in tax to support the non-working, many-offspringed loungers and idlers who this government bends over backwards to encourage.