The Big Green Tax Machine
I just truly don’t believe it, I know that I’m not the only one in the country with these views so why are we all bending over and letting the government fuck us up the arse? You must have read about the latest crazy schemes that they are proposing.
Firstly, Patricia bloody Hewitt (seriously, what use does that woman have) wants to raise taxes on Alcohol to stop binge drinking WTF???? She can’t be serious right? Oh no, she is deadly serious, what a muppet. This is coming from the same labour government who have relaxed our drinking laws (24 hour licences) and relaxed the criminal laws so that those who do binge drink, get plastered, go to the toilet against shop fronts in their town centres, punch a few normal people on the way home, kick in a police car and then the next day they might get fined £50.
If you want to stop binge drinking provide a REAL deterrent, anyone caught causing a public nuisance, starting a fight, pissing against a shop, put them in a police cell overnight, fine them a minimum of £200 and serve them with a suspended sentence then if they do it again they get locked up for 7 days, that would stop the little bastards! It is only a minority so why not bring in laws that will only affect the minority, why tax ALL ALCOHOL just for a few mindless idiots that stalk our towns. It’s not fair on the person who might drink 1 or 2 pints socially every week. It’s wrong, wrong, wrong and typical of our government to shut the gate to the stable while the horse has not just bolted, it’s been chopped up and sold as a dodgy kebab in some shitty burger van.
And my life, what is the deal with all this Green shit (not green-shit, that’s a totally different radioactive problem) at the moment? I admit I’m not Mr Thrifty when it comes to being green and saving the environment, I have energy saving lightbulbs and I do recycle a lot, mostly the junk mail that comes through my door, here’s a hint, stop sending junk mail that could save the environment on its own, that’s about it though. My car is officially a gas guzzler. And I know that my home isn’t “energy efficient” because it’s got an old boiler, the double glazing has blown among other things but it’s the way I choose to live.
The UK is responsible for a mere 2% of the worlds pollution, places like India, America and China can’t even spell environment so why oh why oh why should we be taxed out of our arses to pay for the fact that the world is going tits up? Basically, if a supermarket doesn’t meet its “Green Expectations” they will get fined – if a supermarket gets fined who will they pass the costs onto? Yep, that’s right, you and me! So that cheapo 99p Garlic bread you just bought will go up to £1.50, won’t be much you think, but think about everything that you buy; an £80 shop will increase to about £150; it totally takes the piss and is bang out of order.
Why should owners of 4x4s have to pay up to FIVE THOUSAND pounds in car tax??? Surely if they want to own a 4x4 then let them fucking own a 4x4, I personally don’t want to drive around in a hairdryer so why the hell should I be forced to? My gripe about this is that the way it is heading I wont be able to afford to keep my car and at 5 grand a year tax, no-one will be able to? So who do I sell my car to? It’s worth about 2 grand, who is going to buy it off me knowing they would have to pay 5grand tax? No-one that’s who! So therefore how do I get money to buy a new and environmentally friendly car? Exactly, I don’t.
This is the governments plan, make us all walk! So I go to work to buy all the things I want, but the government taxes everything I have to the extreme, therefore I cant even afford a car, so I cant get to work (no railway station and bus route is shocking) so I cant actually afford to work, so I have to sell my flat and get a council house in a cheap scummy estate with burnt out cars and tracksuited inbreds on every corner, then I can get benefits which are for the jobless, I could then get a cheap car, don’t tax it, or insure it (after all whets the point, a £50 fine for both is still cheaper than car tax and insurance) I could arrange to get a couple of kids from somewhere and live off their child benefit, then when they are 12, make them have kids like all the council estate shits these days and I could be a parasite on society exactly like the government appear to want us all to be.
After all what’s the point in trying to work hard for a living if you’re going to be worse off for it? The sooner we get rid of this shitty labour government the better.
I just want to live my life the way I want to live it, I don’t take kindly being dictated to, I thought when we won the second world war it was for Freedom and Liberation? Certainly doesn’t feel like it at the moment does it?
I just want to live my life the way I want to live it, I don’t take kindly being dictated to, I thought when we won the second world war it was for Freedom and Liberation? Certainly doesn’t feel like it at the moment does it?
posted by Spiller5 @ 5:57 pm
7 Comments:
too fecking right, why don't they tell it like it is, the conniving way in which they try and get more money out of us infuriates me more than the money itself.
'Look we want more of your money just because, and we'll get it if you like it or not. We don't actually give a crap about the environment it's just an excuse to get more money from you.'
There that's not so hard is it?
I actually agree with charging 4x4 owners more, because Z5 drivers can't drive and are bloody dangerous on our roads, just last weekend a twat in a 4x4 revised into the B/F's BMW totally twatting his numberplate what if that had been a child? The B/F was stationary in a car park. But this is my personal gripe and is totally contradictory to my views on taxing the middle class.
Also have you heard about the stealth tax based on your postcode? Apparently they have just spent millions on a machine, that works out where you live how mch your home is worth how good the local school is, what car you drive, if you have improvemenst on your home, based on this they will charge you more or less council tax. People in nice areas of London can expect to pay as much as £2000 MORE on top of what they already pay.
Council tax is based on services, police, street lights, bins etc. Increasing council tax based on affordability is just madness. This is exactly what the Lib Dems want to do. Charge council tax like income tax, WTF!! We already pay income tax you morons!
As for the increased tax on alcohol, huh?! Since when did they need an excuse to tax the drinker? Tax on alcohol goes up without fail every year in the budget, they know that noone will complain, so why do they need a reason to take us more now?!
and can you beleive this?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6066474.stm
Londoners are expected to pay mroe because of the Olympics? What the hell for? I cna't believe how brazen they are, they thinkthey can just stick an extar £33 onto all Londoners' bills? Because none will miss £33.
If London is going to make so much money from the Olympics why don't they take the money from the profits instead of charging Londoners? I bet that most Londoners don't even want the upheaval to their lives that the games will bring.
Dont get me wrong about the 4x4 drivers thing, I totally agree with you on the fact that they cant drive for shit. But is it then up to our government to tax them because they choose to drive that vehicle? No, I dont think so! Will they be any less dangerous in a Nissan Micra? If anything I think more dangerous because Nissan Micra drivers are like kamikaze pilots, they drive them like dodgem cars!
As for the whole council tax thing, the way I read it, because my flat looks out onto a SHARED garden I will have to pay more? At the end of the day, its still a one bed flat, its no mansion! The area I live in, isnt bad, the schools are OK but I dont have kids so I dont really fancy paying extra for the privilage, by the time I have kids then I will have moved so I just dont get it! I'll happily pay for police & fire services and to have my rubbish emptied but our flat is freehold so we do all our own gardening and stuff so why should I pay for any more? Its complete bollocks!
yeah i know it's unfair to tax 4x4 drivers more, they already pay more for the tax on petrol, I just hate them thats all, so I find it funny. Its not going to affect them anyway, paying an extra few quid for the privilige of driver a gas guzzler is not going to be a problem for them, in fact it will give them vindication, they'll say
'I've paid for the privilige of driving this car, so why shouldn't I drive 1 mile up the road with one tiny shit machine in the front to the local school and cause normal people to get trapped in traffic jams'
But yeah Nissan micra or ford escort in my days are like dodgem drivers, but at least if you crash into one of those you won't instantly die. If you crashed into a Z5 you have about as much chance as a phesant. The other thing that annoys me about them is that you can't see past them on the motorway, they sit in the 3rd/4th lane and drive so fast that you can't get past them, then when you hit a traffic jam or bottle neck you have no warning because you can't sse the cars in front. disgressing a bit....
Back to council tax, I rent a flat in Reading, the council does not collect the bins as the bin collection is private, we have no parking because it's yellow lines all the way round the building, theres no gardens to tend, we hardly have any crim because the flats are like Alcatraz, so what the hell is the point in me paying council tax?
As you say I have no kids and when/if I do I won't be living in Reading. I don't use the library because it's closed when i get home, don't use the swimming pools (if there is any) becase they will proably be full of council estate skummers, so I pay my private gym, even when WOMAD is on in Reading, the locals can get a discount with a passport to leisure, can you guess what time the office to obtain the passports are open? Theres no point in me taking half a day off work to get one as the discount is so small thats it becomes a false economy. So who are all these local services for? Unemployed council esate skummers!
yeah most people have no objection to paying a bit more for police and fire services etc, and paying for the true needy, but the amount they take just keeps going up! What further infuriates the middle class is that most people can't even afford to buy a house, something like 60% of mid thirties adults are living with their parents?! WTF! You can't just blame the house prices, if people had a little more to keep for ourselves, they might be able to save a proper deposit. ARGH! Tax gets me so angry.
Thats why there is such a brain drain in this country. Anyone I speak to can't imagine retiring here. When I'm 50 I'm so selling up and running a B&B in Oz.
sorry for the rant.
Can i come.......!! That whole paragraph is what pisses me off most about the council tax and I cant believe you dont even get your bins collected! Whats the point in paying it???
yes, you should get a group of friends who feel the same and want to emigrate, then get another house wait for the prices to go up (my accountant reckons max ten years and prices should double again) then move the sprogs and yourself to somewhere warm. :)
The alternative, keep getting more and more bitter about the state of this country grow old and die in a urine stinking old peoples home where noone visits and care workers abuse you.
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