Alistair Darling promises not to raise taxes

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Read & Weep

Labour won't raise taxes - why should they, just leave it for the tories. Election spring 2009.

Britians budget deficit is astronomical (I referred to it last week, mistakenly as GDP)
"Britain already has the biggest budget deficit of any industrial country."

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle4795086.ece

You lot are sooooooo doooooooomed

[DimPrawn]

You lot are sooooooo doooooooomed

Bring it on!

[shaunbhoy]

NL and TB promised not to up income tax. IIRC.
A promise they stuck too. They have introduced 100s of other stealth taxes and by leaving thresholds alone they have effectively brought more people into higher brackets.

Just wonder what sort of weasel words and spin they will use for the new/alternative taxes they introduce. Road pricing? Congestion charging? Pay per [insert service name here]?

Well as long as it is "fair".

[Board Game Geek]

Pay per [insert service name here]?

Clean Air Tax

To appease the environmentalists and tap in to the new whipping stick to keep the proles in line.

Paper Tax

Paper comes from trees, dunnit ? So all paper based materials are going to cost more.

Bank notes are made of paper, so therefore a Paper Money Tax on your paper money. The only exemption will be for the Daily Express, as it is the voice of the Party. Unfortunately, since toilet paper is included in this tax, citizens will use their Daily Express instead. Oh the irony !

Family Size Tax

Bigger families place more demands upon the national services and infrastructure. So either limit families to 0-2 children, or pay for the priviledge.

Free Energy Tax

If free energy is ever discovered, the subsequent loss to the Exchequer would be apocalyptic. Imagine if solar power was 100% efficient and the country ran everything on solar power. There'd be no money from vehicle fuel to fill the coffers. Therefore, "free energy" will never be "free".

[Board Game Geek]

Labour won't raise taxes - why should they, just leave it for the tories. Election spring 2009.

I know every outgoing administration leaves an absolute mess for the successor, along with a few "poison pills" I'd warrant, but I really do think the next administration are going to be shocked when they see the books...

[AtW]

the next administration are going to be shocked when they see the books...

Good thing Nu Liebor did not keep any books, eh?

[The Lone Gunman]

Clean Air Tax

To appease the environmentalists and tap in to the new whipping stick to keep the proles in line.

Paper Tax

Paper comes from trees, dunnit ? So all paper based materials are going to cost more.

Bank notes are made of paper, so therefore a Paper Money Tax on your paper money. The only exemption will be for the Daily Express, as it is the voice of the Party. Unfortunately, since toilet paper is included in this tax, citizens will use their Daily Express instead. Oh the irony !

Family Size Tax

Bigger families place more demands upon the national services and infrastructure. So either limit families to 0-2 children, or pay for the priviledge.

Free Energy Tax

If free energy is ever discovered, the subsequent loss to the Exchequer would be apocalyptic. Imagine if solar power was 100% efficient and the country ran everything on solar power. There'd be no money from vehicle fuel to fill the coffers. Therefore, "free energy" will never be "free".

You didnt get it did you? The key is not to include the word tax in the pricing system otherwise people will see through it. Your taxes would be.

CO2 exchange charge.
Pay per tulip or is that sheet.
Pay per pup. Which be known as the dilation rate.
Pay per switch (as in on/off switch).

[Board Game Geek]

You didnt get it did you? The key is not to include the word tax in the pricing system otherwise people will see through it.

Curses. No wonder I'll never make a politician.

[ratewhore]

I know every outgoing administration leaves an absolute mess for the successor, along with a few "poison pills" I'd warrant, but I really do think the next administration are going to be shocked when they see the books...

erm, PFI anyone?

[Cyberman]

The Tories should get an independent company in to scrutinise the books and public advertise the level of spending, waste and national debt, as well as the level of claimants, unemployment, public sector pension and PFI commitments etc, so that they can start with a clean slate, and also to justify why taxes will probably have to rise.

They can also use these figures to justify cuts in public sector employment, welfare benefits of long-term scroungers and possibly withdrawal from the EU, which is estimated to cost almost 50 Billion pounds a year by 2013 !!!


... and thanks Tony for dumping Maggies' EU rebate !!