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originally posted by: crazyewok
originally posted by: nonspecific
originally posted by: crazyewok
originally posted by: nonspecific
originally posted by: grainofsand
originally posted by: crazyewok
I have more in common with the minimum wage earners than a million or billionaire.
Bollocks, when did you last fret about having to top up a pre-pay gas key with a tenner you really need?
You are making yourself out some kind of poor victim and I say that's bull#.
I know plenty of people on minimum wage who struggle every day but don't whinge like you do.
Lame.
I had a mate who works 70 hours as a chef, single bloke owns his own 2 bed house come round just the other day begging for a 20 quid loan till Friday to put some electric on so he could iron his whites.
It is I thhink easy to forget quite how little some of the hardest working people out there actually have to survive on.
But that is not my fault, nor is taxing the £40-150k earners more going to end his plight.
I am not saying it is your fault, just trying to point out that your boat is better than you think in comparison to that of a huge chunk of the population.
Here's a question, How many middle class IT consultants were up in arms and opposing the bedroom tax?
Not many I guess because not many IT consultants are living in social housing on low incomes or benefits.
Yet now the IT consultants are expecting those same people to be outraged at a slight tax increase???
A generalisation as I was against the tax, especially for the elderly and disabled and even wrote off about it and signed a few petitions.
originally posted by: crazyewok
I am claiming my expenses as currently entitled by the current tax laws.
originally posted by: crazyewok
a reply to: nonspecific
I wouldn't exactly call the house nice
My mate living on benefits lives in something similar.
Plus I'm not complaining on my current situation.
It is the fact the goverment plan to change that situation and bleed of more money.
That won't make the lower income brackets life's better. If anything it will make it worse as a smaller middle class means less social mobility.
originally posted by: nonspecific
If your house is not up to scratch maybe me and gos could give you a quote for a refurb.
That would make for an interesting job...
originally posted by: grainofsand
originally posted by: nonspecific
If your house is not up to scratch maybe me and gos could give you a quote for a refurb.
That would make for an interesting job...
I'm game...10% discount for cash fella
originally posted by: nonspecific
And we will also collect all the materials for you to save you having to deal with those pesky receipts...
originally posted by: crazyewok
It is the fact the goverment plan to change that situation and bleed of more money.
originally posted by: grainofsand
a reply to: Psychotics
The OP can easily avoid the taxes he's whinging about but can't be arsed with the administrative time required to do so.
I've got the impression he wants to be a victim.
originally posted by: crazyewok
Better to speak up now and make a fuss than put my fingers in my ears and go "lalala" like GOS.
originally posted by: nonspecific
a reply to: BrianFlanders
This is about taxation and the perception of the middle classes pal, nothing to do with lefty righty politics.
originally posted by: MOMof3
a reply to: Teikiatsu
I do not believe that.
You and your kind want 0 taxes and anarchy. You think you will come out on top.
The movement is toward fascism, mayhem, war, like the The Levant, or ME. Lots of money to be made of human suffering. That is what the rich know.