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Re: Dumb and Dumber (voters!)
Posted by 'RSBW' on 28 Feb 2013 @ 04:26


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In 1989 you could get (and I did) 17.5% interest for money on deposit at your High Street bank. The Bank rate was 25%!!!!!! and it was like that for nearly a year. What that re-affirmed was that do not borrow from a bank, any bank, unless you have a strategy or get-out.

With base at 0.5% this recession is somewhat less frightening. But it is true today as it was back then, if you borrow a £1 you will have to pay it back eventually. With interest.

It has been proposed that we should tax on what we spend and not on what we earn. I think that is an excellent idea as I have a reasonable income. However it will not happen. A person on £400 a week will spend most of that £400 on living. A person on £1200 a week may or may not spend the 'extra'. He/she has a choice. HMRC do not like this. HMRC wants that money. So 'government' of all colours is fixated on taxing you on what you earn.

Years ago Maggie T was going to reduce the price of diesel to match much of Europe. This suddenly changed, I suspect, after the then equivalent of HMRC pointed out how much it would cost the exchequer. Now we have diesel costing some 8p/l (36p/gallon) more than petrol. This has little to do with cost of production.

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Dumb and Dumber  by 'tweaker'   (26 Feb 2013 @ 21:49)
Re: Dumb and Dumber (voters!)  by 'itpro'   (27 Feb 2013 @ 0:38)
Re: Dumb and Dumber (voters!)  by 'michaelg36'   (27 Feb 2013 @ 10:22)
Re: Dumb and Dumber (voters!)  by 'michaelg36'   (27 Feb 2013 @ 10:23)
Re: Dumb and Dumber (voters!)  by 'itpro'   (27 Feb 2013 @ 10:49)
Re: Dumb and Dumber (voters!)  by 'richydehav'   (27 Feb 2013 @ 12:26)
Re: Dumb and Dumber (voters!)  by 'itpro'   (27 Feb 2013 @ 13:56)
Re: Dumb and Dumber (voters!)  by 'itpro'   (27 Feb 2013 @ 14:30)
Re: Dumb and Dumber (voters!)  by 'fatsam'   (14 Mar 2013 @ 7:42)
Re: Dumb and Dumber (voters!)  by 'itpro'   (14 Mar 2013 @ 16:13)
Re: Dumb and Dumber (voters!)  by 'Chris34'   (27 Feb 2013 @ 14:37)
Re: Dumb and Dumber (voters!)  by 'PaulMRotax'   (27 Feb 2013 @ 16:03)
Re: Dumb and Dumber (voters!)  by 'itpro'   (27 Feb 2013 @ 16:36)
Re: Dumb and Dumber (voters!)  by 'BanzaiBoy'   (27 Feb 2013 @ 17:03)
Re: Dumb and Dumber (voters!)  by 'itpro'   (27 Feb 2013 @ 17:42)
Re: Dumb and Dumber (voters!)  by 'Traxtar'   (27 Feb 2013 @ 19:28)
Re: Dumb and Dumber (voters!)  by 'Chris34'   (27 Feb 2013 @ 19:39)
Re: Dumb and Dumber (voters!)  by 'itpro'   (27 Feb 2013 @ 20:50)
Re: Dumb and Dumber (voters!)  by 'BanzaiBoy'   (27 Feb 2013 @ 22:55)
Re: Dumb and Dumber (voters!)  by 'PaulMRotax'   (27 Feb 2013 @ 21:14)
Re: Dumb and Dumber (voters!)  by 'itpro'   (28 Feb 2013 @ 0:28)
Re: Dumb and Dumber (voters!)  by 'RSBW'  << You are here!
Re: Dumb and Dumber (voters!)  by 'itpro'   (28 Feb 2013 @ 10:14)
Re: Dumb and Dumber (voters!)  by 'dynamax'   (28 Feb 2013 @ 10:54)
Re: Dumb and Dumber (voters!)  by 'richydehav'   (28 Feb 2013 @ 12:18)
Re: Dumb and Dumber (voters!)  by 'PaulMRotax'   (28 Feb 2013 @ 11:17)
Re: Dumb and Dumber (voters!)  by 'itpro'   (28 Feb 2013 @ 11:32)
Re: Dumb and Dumber (voters!)  by 'PaulMRotax'   (28 Feb 2013 @ 12:50)
Re: Dumb and Dumber (voters!)  by 'NikG'   (28 Feb 2013 @ 16:25)
Re: Dumb and Dumber (voters!)  by 'itpro'   (28 Feb 2013 @ 20:24)
Re: Dumb and Dumber (voters!)  by 'PaulMRotax'   (01 Mar 2013 @ 9:50)
Re: Dumb and Dumber (voters!)  by 'buzzinrussell'   (01 Mar 2013 @ 15:39)
Re: Dumb and Dumber (voters!)  by 'itpro'   (01 Mar 2013 @ 17:55)
Re: Dumb and Dumber (voters!)  by 'PaulMRotax'   (01 Mar 2013 @ 22:10)
PaulM -Rotax  by 'dynamax'   (06 Mar 2013 @ 13:02)
Re: PaulM -Rotax  by 'buzzinrussell'   (06 Mar 2013 @ 13:43)
dynamax  by 'PaulMRotax'   (06 Mar 2013 @ 14:22)

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