Reply to: What budget cuts would you make?

[vetran]

Turn foreign aid to foreign development - tax relief on british companies providing infrastructure to third world.

Simplify tax system, fewer taxes more revenue.

Automate everything possible in public service and then reduce staff they can become policemen etc.

Make long term unemployed work for benefit. There are lots of things to be done that we can't afford to do because of labour cost. MOD properties, grafitti removal, prison building etc.

require £50k annual fee for each work permit.

Make sure foreign owners of companies can't avoid local tax.

Open public sector supply to small businesses. No more £700 light bulbs.

Replace quangos with internet voting panels, if fortune 500 companies can provide secure identification then so can the government.

Review PFI and fix a max gross profit then reduce costs.

create uniform specifications for IT systems that are representative of current systems but reviewed nationally via voting panels. Think ITIL for development.

put responsibility for things firmly on the managers shoulders lets have a few sackings 'to encourage the others' they might get their snouts out of the trough.

Cut fluff jobs. Its not just nurses in the NHS.

[Jog On]

A tax on eating pussy?

Don't want to upset the lessers - if you think the unions are bad...

[doodab]

We should tax cat ownership.

And have feline cuisine as a tax deductible expense.

A tax on eating pussy?

[hyperD]

We should tax cat ownership.

And have feline cuisine as a tax deductible expense.

[MrMark]

Why does it always have to be looked at job cuts?

A true capitalist would be looking at increasing revenue and/or cash inflow, as well as cutting costs. What about selling off the motorway network to toll operators (or leasing off)? Or selling off the Malvinas to the highest bidders - we'll have to let go when we no longer have much of a navy anyway.
We tell millions of northerners that they have to move to find work, so we shouldn't feel too bad about those 4,000 islanders. Although, come to think of it, maybe we'd get a lot more money for the Isle of Wight. If only we could get a serious party interested in taking over N.I.

[Jog On]

I'd also cut the fat.

What about cutting Bob Crow in half? Or into more pieces...

But then they might turn into more Bob Crows

Scratch that!

[doodab]

I'd also cut the fat.

And rub a bit of salt in so it goes nice and crispy?

Mmm. I might make roast pork tonight.

[MarillionFan]

I would cut the crap. Then I would cut Gordon Browns nuts off. To finish with a flourish I would cut the cheese.

I'd also cut the fat.

[original PM]

stop giving cash to lazy gits who can't be assed working

no free flats for teenage mums (their parents look after them or they go on the street)

legalise pot and tax it

send the unemployed off to war - that always worked a treat in the past....

[DimPrawn]

Extra taxes for Russian Onanists.

Immigrant tax. Seriously. £50K each pa.

[SupremeSpod]

Taxes on Union members and Labour party members...

Extra taxes for Russian Onanists.

[BoredBloke]

Means test child benefit.
Stop child benefit after 3rd child
Stop disability benefit for those who cand easily find work
Reduce VAT for Bars and Restraunts etc like they did in France
Make signing on more difficult (eg have to sign on each day in the job centre to cut down on those working cash in hand)
Reduce the use of expensive consultancies in government for roles which could easily be carried out in house
Simplification of the tax system

[gingerjedi]

Taxes on Union members and Labour party members...

Notice how they are now known as just 'Unions'... they used to be 'Trade Unions' when they were first devised.

[DimPrawn]

get rid of all diversity officers

What, all 200,000 of them?

[gricerboy]

how about a tax tax? Something like 10% should cover it.

get rid of all diversity officers