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Post by Andy Fri May 08, 2015 2:00 pm

Let the carnage begin.
Predicting the following:
Welfare cap reduced to £23,000
Fuel duty to rise by 2p per litre
Vehicle excise duty increases
Top rate income tax reduction.
Upper income tax threshold lowered.
Income tax lower rate threshold frozen at £10,600
VAT increased to 22.5%
Student fees increased to £11,500 per year from £9,000
Prescription charges increased to £10
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Post by Raggamuffin Fri May 08, 2015 2:42 pm

I would say that most of those would affect most people, so why did the Tories win? Anything good to say about them?
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Post by Andy Fri May 08, 2015 2:51 pm

I haven't even started. I haven't even considered how Osborne proposes to fund his £12 billion giveaway. But one can gave an educated guess that locsl councils, in particular those run by non Conservative will be hit hard.
As will civil and public servants who will get a 20% budget hit and a further pay freeze for 4 years to add on the the current 5 year freeze.
9 years on pay freeze = abject poverty rather than austerity.
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Post by Guest Fri May 08, 2015 9:17 pm

well I warned you 2+ years ago that vat would HAVE to rise to cover....

guess what

the huge reduction in revenue from people stopping smoking and moving to ecigs....for which there is NO excuse to tax

the antis have got their way

typically now they dont like the cost....

it is estimated that this alone has lost the treasury some 2 billion.... affraid

go figure...

but I did say at the time that this is what would happen....

now suck it up

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Post by Guest Fri May 08, 2015 9:20 pm

see..having stopped using tobacco and gone to e cigs...I'm in a position that a rise in vat of 2.5% is costing me LESS still than the cost of ciggs...

its just now YOU self righteous antis can help cover the cost of the lot revenue

and you know whats funniest dont you...

you cant very well point your finger at us smokers and say "whaaaah its YOUR fault"
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Post by eddie Fri May 08, 2015 9:48 pm

Oh for goodness sake! Any party that gets in does something to piss someone off!!!

Do you honestly think there is such a thing as the perfect party or even a perfect budget???? Rolling Eyes
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Post by Guest Fri May 08, 2015 9:58 pm

sorry eddie but I have a very valid point there

where else do you think 2 billion in lost revenue is going to come from.....

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