Lib Dems prove once again they are not fit to govern

[BrilloPad]

You see my point though? How much tax is enough considering that I'd already paid tax on that 30k at 40%?

We pay TOO much tax and if they want to collect more tax then lower the tax rates - not raise them.

If you are going to tax then property is easier target as it is hard to move. Taxing rich people never seems to work as they earn nothing.

Personally I favour tax cuts paid for by money printing. And more importantly slashing of red tape.

[Robinho]

HTH.

Nope, plenty of countries are on the way up. The Western world is tuliped though.

[Scoobos]

yeah thats why it says "WESTERN" world.....

China's screwed and the only country I know thats doing "well" is Australia.

[Robinho]

Oh, just saw the caps world and assumed that was the only word you changed.

[Scoobos]

Oh, just saw the caps world and assumed that was the only word you changed.

ah I see, yep sorry not very clear that .

[MyUserName]

I thought that Canada was also doing okay?
What about the Swiss, have they been hit hard by all this?

[Mich the Tester]

I thought that Canada was also doing okay?
What about the Swiss, have they been hit hard by all this?

Canada OK, Swiss OK, Norway OK.

[Robinho]

Canada have a pretty astonishing debt level like ourselves.

[Scoobos]

Alberta is doing ok, Canada isn't - and Canada as a country doesn't get a great deal of benefit from Alberta; it's a weird one.

Albertans get paid (in 2010) 2000 dollars per "tax paying age" person, just for living there and pay ZERO VAT (GST).

Canada is struggling - I wanted to emigrate there, had everything ready to go and then they went protectionalist in 2010 and stopped taking people in on the N.O.C list

It's my view that the world has been duped by the many financial institutions that traded on money that no one really had (selling mortgage books for assets, or debts etc).

I genuinely think we're in a tough position here and am even a bit scared that our enemies appear to be making moves to take advantage of this, by buying into our infrastructure and key corporates.

My view, is no matter what ANY government does, we need to realise just how much we HAVE rather than the things we perceive we have lost. Consumerism and household incomes are larger than ever (our grandparents had none of this).

Money is supposed to be the solution to allocating the worlds finite resources, but we've acted and continue to act in a way where we believe no resource is finite, and neither is money.....

Tough times ahead, and as much as I hate the superrich for corruption, immoral tax evasion , and the fact the middle class seems to be paying for the whole country - tax isn't going to help much at all - especially the way this goverment is spending.

<off soapbox>

[BrilloPad]

Consumerism and household incomes are larger than ever (our grandparents had none of this).

I was watching bleak house last night - and was wondering what Dickens would make of it all.