CUT THE STATE, LOWER TAXES!
Monday, November 16, 2009 at 07:08PM Pleased to read that the UK public favours tackling the ballooning public deficit with cuts in spending, a BBC poll suggests no less!!
The survey found 59% of the 1,005 people polled believed there should be benefit or tax credit cuts - rather than tax hikes - to lower the deficit. Almost half of those surveyed (48%) also thought there should be a one-year pay freeze for the public sector. (I presume the other half work in the public sector)
This is good as far as it goes, the issue is it does not go far enough. We need to see savage cuts in the bloated unaffordable public sector and a pay freeze that will last many years. No politician will come out and say this but it is not a debate, it is a financial necessity. Of course there are NO votes in being honest so all the main parties talk of some scaling back when they all know that something much more severe has to happen.
The good thing is the public seem to instinctively hold a view that cutting the State is a good thing but raising taxes is a bad thing. If only politicians had half this basic wit.
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Cuts in spending are not enough to fill the hole, tax rises will be needed.
According to the new advert for the Tax payers alliance this is what the EU is costing Britain.
The EU's CAP cost £10 billion p.a.
Common Fisheries policy costs £2.8 billion p.a.
Each EU MP costs the taxpayer £!.8 million each year.
VAT fraud in the EU costs Britain £80 billion p.a.
It costs each person £2,000 p.a.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DxPnjOBlRI
Fill the hole in finances by getting out of the EU. Simple.