£400 a week cap on benefits, good or bad?

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

No thats not true. The richer you are the less tax you pay and when your'e really well off you pay nothing.

I must have a word with my accountant, I have paid my share at 40%:yikes:

 

[Deleted member 9966]

Why be angry with the unemployed. Not everyone wants to be on the dole. We should be angry with the Bankers who lost all sorts of money and then left us to pay it back from our taxes.

my husband worked for RBS and is classed as a banker. he worked his nuts off for a bonus he did not receive and was made redundant. so not every banker caused RBS to get into difficulty and you have to remember that it was the government who chose to bail them out, not the tax payer.

do you have any proof that the rich don't pay taxes?

 

[mikethetile]

Why be angry with the unemployed. Not everyone wants to be on the dole. We should be angry with the Bankers who lost all sorts of money and then left us to pay it back from our taxes.

are you unemployed Guitar

 

[guitar12]

Super-rich paying no income tax | This is Money

 

[Deleted member 9966]

doesn't mean they avoid paying tax altogether tho guitar. just means they find loopholes to get out of paying all the tax they should.

 

[guitar12]

are you unemployed Guitar

No i'm not but when this Tory Government gets their teeth into this country we all will be and then we'll see who shouts about the unemployed being lazy

 

[mikethetile]

thats old news guitar

these people were able to use the guernsey isles etc to hold their money offshore, this loophole was closed earlier this year. this was part of the aftermath of clamping down on the banks

if they are resident in the uk they pay tax like the rest of us

 

[Dan]

Tories are sorting the mess and debt out labour left us. So I assume you don't like tories or labour? Who would you get run the country?

 

[guitar12]

doesn't mean they avoid paying tax altogether tho guitar. just means they find loopholes to get out of paying all the tax they should.

So it's ok for them to find loopholes but not ok for the unemployed

 

[guitar12]

Tories are sorting the mess and debt out labour left us. So I assume you don't like tories or labour? Who would you get run the country?

Dan have you ever read The ragged trousered philantropists ? If not then you should

 

[mikethetile]

No i'm not but when this Tory Government gets their teeth into this country we all will be and then we'll see who shouts about the unemployed being lazy

this is the fourth recession Ive lived and worked through, I wont be unemployed and neither will anyone else who goes out day after day and looks for work, prices it and gets it done

the small business' floats this country not big business

anyone with a bit about them will survive, the lazy and feckless will fall by the wayside

 

[Deleted member 9966]

So it's ok for them to find loopholes but not ok for the unemployed

not ok for the unemployed to what? find loopholes? precisely. it's not ok for the unemployed to not pay tax when there are jobs out there that pay something. instead of sponging of society, they should be helping to rebuild it. and please, don't tell me I don't know what it's like to be unemployed. I've been there myself claiming jobseekers.

it's the attitude of the long term unemployed that is wrong, not those who have recently lost their jobs and are having to find work on a lot less money.

 

[mikethetile]

Dan have you ever read The ragged trousered philantropists ? If not then you should

I have Guitar

do you want to discuss it

ill start

the tradesmen is his own worst enemy as he undersells his labour in fear of being undercut by the next tradesman

 

[Dan]

this is the fourth recession Ive lived and worked through, I wont be unemployed and neither will anyone else who goes out day after day and looks for work, prices it and gets it done

the small business' floats this country not big business

anyone with a bit about them will survive, the lazy and feckless will fall by the wayside

+1

Amen to that!

Google has done a report, us small business are 7.something% of the GDP. It's the future, and the reason they're investing in fibre optics. To get more businesses online and exporting bits and bobs.

 

[Aston]

what i would and i am sure we would all like to see is......................the new government create some jobs too!!! as well as just cutting back. id hate to see them get the tag of a one trick pony? its easy to conserve, anyfool can cut back but creating, well thats another thing isnt it...only time will tell