THE WAR ON MOTORISTS...
Interesting to read that nine out of 10 motorists face higher road tax under changes announced in this week's Budget. The TaxPayers' Alliance calculated that 88% of vehicles would be hit with higher duty, while only 9% would leave their owners better off. It said the Treasury would get more than £1 billion from the changes designed to encourage the production of more green-friendly cars.The reforms include the introduction of a £950 "showroom tax" on the most allegedly gas-guzzling cars. (Though this is of course is a lie since many smaller and older cars produce much worse emissions but hey, don't let a chance to soak the rich pass you by, Darling) The TaxPayers' Alliance also say that duty on Rolls Royces and Porsches would rise by less than the typical family saloon.
The claim came after Chancellor Alistair Darling was warned he would have to make an £8 billion cut in spending if Labour are returned at the next General Election. The independent Institute for Fiscal Studies said the small print in the Budget "red book" suggested a £7.5 billion deterioration in the public finances since the Pre-Budget Report last October. IFS director Robert Chote said Mr Darling would have to find a further £4 billion in spending cuts in his next spending review - scheduled for 2009 - on top of the £4 billion already pencilled in. He said: "To make the numbers add up, he is now looking for an £8 billion spending cut over the two years covered by the 2009 spending review." But he said measures would not bite until after the next General Election, which must be held by May 2010 at the latest.
I think that Labour is commited to growing the State at ALL costs and so I dispute what the IIFS says. AFTER the next election we will be hammered by Labour and its desire to punish wealth creators so it can pay for its massive army for state parasites.
David Vance
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No tax policies or spending cuts are intended to clobber the electorate before the next General Election. Labour will not show its hand until all the votes from the state's clients are in the bag. Then an Age of Austerity will be announced, and Gordon's Hammer will fall on the workers and skivers alike. And a great wailing will be heard throughout the land.........
David,
Aren't you forgetting this other army, whose adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost the UK taxpayer all of £3.2 billion so far? Wonder how the Exchequer is going to make up that little shortfall.
Oh, I know: they'll tax the motorists, smokers and drinkers.
Dawkins what will the cost be when the war is being faught in London?
Mama,
Why, who's going to attack us, the USA?
yeah never mind those self exploding islamists. It was after all Americans that blew up your subway.
Mama,
LOL. Forgive me but I'll never understand American logic. The Saudis attack your country and you retaliate by invading Iraq?
Seems you people invade whom you please, so why not Britain at some point?