Nick Clegg said exactly that on Andrew Marr yesterday. Balls should come up with his own ideas.
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Tory Marriage Tax stuff
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostDid you reason that out all by yourself, or are you quoting verbatim from the response given by some politician this morning on the news?
The question is completely irrelevant anyway. It's a MARRIED couples allowance. Not a PARENTS allowance.
Yes I quoted someone else (though not from this morning). Is it like homework, where it doesn't count if I didn't think it up all by myself?Step outside posh boyComment
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Originally posted by Platypus View PostYes, because by now she has the house, the kid, a fat maintenance cheque every month
Originally posted by Platypus View Postand government benefits.
Originally posted by Platypus View PostThe man has paid and will continue to pay for 18-21 years more."You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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Originally posted by Tarquin Farquhar View Post...
Yes I quoted someone else (though not from this morning). Is it like homework, where it doesn't count if I didn't think it up all by myself?
In answer to your original question. No, it's not moral, but neither does it have any bearing on whether a married couples allowance will increase morality in the UK.
You really should have recognised it as standard politician issue avoidance - raising a side issue to distract the (sheeplike) audience from what the substantive point is. Nick Clegg seized on the "moral" argument. Cameron should have stayed away from that, and simply used the "fairness" argument. I.e.
"It's not fair that a married couple with only one working partner pays more tax than an unmarried couple in the same situation".Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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Originally posted by RichardCranium View PostThat'll include all the lesbian & gay married couples. I am so looking forward to the Daily Mail headline about that!
"Straight tax to pay for queer goings on!"
or maybe better...
"Government announces tax relief for hand relief"
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post....
"It's not fair that a married couple with only one working partner pays more tax than an unmarried couple in the same situation".Comment
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Originally posted by VectraMan View PostNick Clegg said exactly that on Andrew Marr yesterday. Balls should come up with his own ideas.Older and ...well, just older!!Comment
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Originally posted by Peoplesoft bloke View PostEh? could you just explain how being married makes you pay more tax?"See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."Comment
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Originally posted by ratewhore View PostI usually switch off when Nick Clegg turns up. He'll be a kingmaker when it comes to the aftermath of the election..."See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."Comment
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Originally posted by Moscow Mule View PostIf the wife (or husband - we're all modern here) is not working, you "lose" her (or his) personal allowance without a married couples allowance.Comment
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