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Bob696:
--- Quote from: "Wolfie" ---If fuel duty was to be reduced................
What tax will you be happy with them increasing to make up the difference?
Or what public service will you be happy with being reduced?
[And however emotive a subject happens to be, please remember that the club does have rules on the use of language in posts]
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They could always stop invading people and blowing them up because the americans asked them to.
I REALLY dont get this argument. The government survived happly 12 months ago with prices at around 90p say tax at 80% = price to government of 72p.
Price now of 110p = 88p. They could slash 16p off a litre and not even notice it. It's a cash cow.
(Please assume that 80% is wrong and adjust figures accordingly for the correct figure)
lambert:
Basically we are being oppressed and having our freedom of choice eroded by those we nominally elected to act as our servants.
Can we pettion the americans for a bit of forcible dictator change and some free and fair elections?
Boddle:
--- Quote from: "Bob696" ---
I REALLY dont get this argument. The government survived happly 12 months ago with prices at around 90p say tax at 80% = price to government of 72p.
Price now of 110p = 88p. They could slash 16p off a litre and not even notice it. It's a cash cow.
(Please assume that 80% is wrong and adjust figures accordingly for the correct figure)
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Yep I agree.
I also can stand people who complain who don't vote (not suggesting any of you didn't), If you didn't please take note you can make a difference especially if you can get all your friends who don't vote to vote too.
I wonder if it is possible to create on the Government petition site a vote of no confidence maybe by using the above figure lets face it anybody who gets there budget so badly wrong 72p when they actually need 88p a litre on fuel is incompetent to govern in my view.
V8MoneyPit:
Is it actually all tax increases? Surely some of the increase is because the supplying countries can afford to charge more because China would take all the fuel they can produce anyway? And why is China in that position? Because we, the consumer, keep buying throw away goods that China can produce so well.
By throw away goods, I mean everything from plastic bags to televisions. It will take a major change in consumer attitude before fuel demand from the likes of China drops and the base price of crude oil falls with it.
Of course, the governement is wacking great lumps of tax on it too. I don't deny it. But the recent rises aren't all to do with them.
kizz81:
its the smoking ban, have to get tax from somewhere to pay for pensions, when fuel got to a pound i went to tescos and bought cooking oil :lol:
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