The Osborne " we're are all in it together " Budget

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

Reintroduce smoking in pubs.
Allow supermarkets to sell cheap booze.
Premium lager/beer to remain at 5% alcohol instead of planned 4.8%
Save the public sector from privatisation
Invest in public transport
Ban all Heart FM radio stations from broadcasting now and forever


We only live once. Let us enjoy it Mr Obsborne.

 

[Humbug]

And cut the benefit rise of 5.8% to zero.

 

[e77]

this is the answer to much of the public funding issues, but its politically unpopular on both sides.

Probably because it would affect the much mooted Middle England vote.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Are you ADDICTED to anything though Edna ?

I'm not. But if I had kids who needed to be fed, then I'd be working out what my priorities really are. There are plenty of products out there to assist people in stopping smoking, assuming you don't have the willpower to just say "no more" and give up under your own steam. There are plenty of legitimate reasons why people are on the poverty line. Spending over two hundred quid a month on fags is not one of them.

 

[Super Steve Earle]

A Tory budget rather than a LibDem budget!
Restore women's pensions to age 60 for women born in the mid 1950's. It's too late for them to adjust. The age adjustment was legalised theft.
Restore the Disability allowances arbitrarily withdrawn last week. Recipients deserve better.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Reintroduce smoking in pubs.
Allow supermarkets to sell cheap booze.
Premium lager/beer to remain at 5% alcohol instead of planned 4.8%
Save the public sector from privatisation
Invest in public transport
Ban all Heart FM radio stations from broadcasting now and forever


We only live once. Let us enjoy it Mr Obsborne.

Most of us enjoy it very much in pubs without struggling to breathe and coming out smelling like an ashtray, thanks.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Introduce a crippling tax on Hennes, H&M, Top Shop, NewLook, Primark and Abercrombie and Fitch.

 

[Kazenga <3]

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[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

Most of us enjoy it very much in pubs without struggling to breathe and coming out smelling like an ashtray, thanks.

Maybe but it masks the smell of farts, body odour and piss from the toilets which now fill our clubs/ pubs.

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

Introduce a crippling tax on Hennes, H&M, Top Shop, NewLook, Primark and Abercrombie and Fitch.

Quality! Happy to include Jack Wills and Hollister

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

if they put up the price of tobacco then i'm gonna start smoking apeshit

Is this a better idea

 

[GT49er]

A graduated property tax (not the the rich-loving tory Old-Etonians will ever do it) based on valuation - not much on your basic two-bed semi, but gradually increasing as the value of the property rises. If you live in a million pound house, you can afford to pay a few thousand a year to the Treasury for the privilege, and if you're in a ten million pound house you can afford to pay quite a few more thousands - and you can always downsize! Not difficult from a million pound house - rather harder if you got a one bedroom flat somewhere!

And the beauty of it is, that although rich people successfully get out of paying tax using overseas trust funds and stuff, the house is fair-and-square on good old Great British terra firma, so even if it is technically owned by some bloody private trust fund in the Bahamas, the tax will still have to be paid, or the house becomes the property of the state, to the benefit of the Treasury, the economy and all of us.

Won't happen, though - more's the pity!

 

[drew]

£1 per cigarette

All unemployed people to have to work to receive benefits, it has to be done.

Means test all other benefits except JSA.

Reintroduce the Poll Tax.

Is there any hint of a reasonable explanation why JSA is the only benefit not to be means tested. Could it be that it is a benefit you received, Tim?

 

[oxymoron]

How about some new taxes, let me start the ball rolling: Re needing a licence.

Jogging

Cycling

any form of sailing

owning pets

 

[happypig]

All unemployed people to have to work to receive benefits, it has to be done.

Daft idea. That would just lead to more unemployment as organisations laid people off because the jobless are doing it cheaper.

 

[happypig]

Maybe but it masks the smell of farts, body odour and piss from the toilets which now fill our clubs/ pubs.

I prefer those smells to the smell of smoke. I've also never heard of someone dying of cancer caused by second hand farts.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Is there any hint of a reasonable explanation why JSA is the only benefit not to be means tested. Could it be that it is a benefit you received, Tim?

Contribution based only for a while. Well two months I think back in 2008.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Daft idea. That would just lead to more unemployment as organisations laid people off because the jobless are doing it cheaper.

No if you make those on benefits attend a work placement, even twice a week , most will bloody soon find a job. There are some around you know.

 

[Vegas Seagull]

A graduated property tax (not the the rich-loving tory Old-Etonians will ever do it) based on valuation - not much on your basic two-bed semi, but gradually increasing as the value of the property rises. If you live in a million pound house, you can afford to pay a few thousand a year to the Treasury for the privilege, and if you're in a ten million pound house you can afford to pay quite a few more thousands - and you can always downsize! Not difficult from a million pound house - rather harder if you got a one bedroom flat somewhere!

And the beauty of it is, that although rich people successfully get out of paying tax using overseas trust funds and stuff, the house is fair-and-square on good old Great British terra firma, so even if it is technically owned by some bloody private trust fund in the Bahamas, the tax will still have to be paid, or the house becomes the property of the state, to the benefit of the Treasury, the economy and all of us.

Won't happen, though - more's the pity!

If someone owns a property worth £1m with a mortgage of £900k they should pay 'a few thousand a year' extra compared to someone who owns a property worth £200k with a £50k mortgage (ie 'richer') then?
Or someone that owns 10 x £200k properties
Or someone that bought 40 years ago for £40k & just has a pension of £80 a week

 

[happypig]

No if you make those on benfits attend a work placement, even twice a week , most will bloody soon find a job. There are some around you know.

Not nearly enough. I would agree with you if employers were saying that they cannot get anyone to work for them but, generally, there are dozens of applicants for every job. You would also need so much administration of the placement scheme that it would probably end up costing money.
Far better to reduce benefits on a sliding scale during the first year of employment so that employers and the government share the cost of employing people.