high earners to lose child benefit
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It just seems I am paying out for feckless idle tw@ts who punch out kid after kid, with different partners and have no social responsibility for themselves, let alone others. I am getting hit more and more with "taxation" because I stuck in, worked hard and bettered myself. What does it say about a country when mugs like myself are yet again financially ambushed to look after inept parents who could not give a toss for how many kids they have, who with and why.
Heres a solution, humane and financial. Bring the troops home, allow the Afghans some dignity for their own country, we have no business there any more.
Stop the war in Afghanistan. that'll save lives and a few bob.
The government invests in British Industry, buys from British industry and rebuilds it. Offer incentives to companies to use British suppliers and commodities, so we invest, expand and do not contract out to foreign firms.0 -
I,m with you on that solution.
If I were to modify the CB (this may suprise some on here) I would pay it universally to all, well the mother for the first two only thereafter it's up to her.
Obviously it would not be retrospective and it would not be enforced for a year. This I feel would make women think about who is going to sire their children and it would discourage the feckless from keep churning out more of the same. Whatsmore, it would save more than this cock up.
Still got to cane the real culprits though.Tail end Charlie
The above post may contain traces of sarcasm or/and bullsh*t.0 -
dmclite wrote:The government invests in British Industry, buys from British industry and rebuilds it. Offer incentives to companies to use British suppliers and commodities, so we invest, expand and do not contract out to foreign firms.
Good example of this - the new trains for the Eurostar line are being built by Siemens in Germany. The trains for the Virgin lines were built in Italy. The HS1 trains were built in Japan (I think). When the rest of the world and the UK finally gets round to Maglev (the Chinese have shown it can be done profitably) we'll probably be ordering those from Germany as well.
That's billions lost right there just because we couldn't make these things ourselves. :x0 -
The £44,000 threshold figure is the one that is being quoted, but am I right in thinking that the 40% tax threshold will actually drop to £42,500 from next year?0
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johnfinch wrote:
Good example of this - the new trains for the Eurostar line are being built by Siemens in Germany. The trains for the Virgin lines were built in Italy. The HS1 trains were built in Japan (I think). When the rest of the world and the UK finally gets round to Maglev (the Chinese have shown it can be done profitably) we'll probably be ordering those from Germany as well.
That's billions lost right there just because we couldn't make these things ourselves. :x
I remember my dad telling me that when he worked down the shipyards in the 1960s a group of Korean's came over to Swan Hunters. They watched the working practices and systems in place for over 6 months, carefully noting down what the workers and management did.....going back to Korea they adopted elements of our system but worked 3 x8 hour shifts and built the ship in a 3rd of the time at a 3rd of the cost whilst UK yards adopted ridiculous working practices with the management held to ransom by strong unions (my dad seemed to be out on strike far too often!) and during the whole of august the shipyard shut down for the holiday!
During these times we put out core primary industries to the sword and we now find ourselves with a tertiary workforce and no real engineering/building/manufacturing firms left...
I have often wondered if we could return to this golden era and get proper apprenticeships etc back in place but that would require Keynsian economics on a grand scale.....ah we no longer have any money in the pot!0 -
Ands wrote:The £44,000 threshold figure is the one that is being quoted, but am I right in thinking that the 40% tax threshold will actually drop to £42,500 from next year?
Yes - actually its £42375- so anyone who was thinking it was £44k needs to be aware of this in 2013.0 -
geordieindevon wrote:
I remember my dad telling me that when he worked down the shipyards in the 1960s a group of Korean's came over to Swan Hunters. They watched the working practices and systems in place for over 6 months, carefully noting down what the workers and management did.....going back to Korea they adopted elements of our system but worked 3 x8 hour shifts and built the ship in a 3rd of the time at a 3rd of the cost whilst UK yards adopted ridiculous working practices with the management held to ransom by strong unions (my dad seemed to be out on strike far too often!) and during the whole of august the shipyard shut down for the holiday!
During these times we put out core primary industries to the sword and we now find ourselves with a tertiary workforce and no real engineering/building/manufacturing firms left...
I have often wondered if we could return to this golden era and get proper apprenticeships etc back in place but that would require Keynsian economics on a grand scale.....ah we no longer have any money in the pot!
We'll be competing with other highly developed Western countries for the high-tech and prestige markets, rather than going up against the likes of China on costs.
People can blame unions, governments or businesses all they like, but there's no way that we can compete against Asian wages. Even Eastern European manufacturing wages would leave a British worker starving.0