In Norway, Sweden and Denmark the standard rate of VAT is 25%.
this always makes me chuckle - the usual suspects keep saying we should aspire to copy the policies of the Nordic countries, yet when it is suggested raising taxes to the same levels they complain no end.
It will be even more rip off Britain when they have finished privatising everything. We pay more,we get less. Shareholders and the CEO's of the likes of G4S and Serco will be okay though.
If they privatise the state sector like they did British Rail, it will be even worse - we take the risk, we put the money in, the private companies take the money.
It will be even more rip off Britain when they have finished privatising everything. We pay more,we get less. Shareholders and the CEO's of the likes of G4S and Serco will be okay though.
If they privatise the state sector like they did British Rail, it will be even worse - we take the risk, we put the money in, the private companies take the money.
"David Cameron has suggested that public spending should continue to be squeezed in a "fundamental culture change" that would leave the British public sector "permanently" slimmed down."
"Shadow chancellor George Osborne's speech to the 2007 Conservative Party conference:
"I have committed us to two per cent a year spending rises for the next three years.
This will mean real increases for our public services.""
It isn't, and it isn't even Osborne's goal to balance the budget. The long term goal of the present Government is to bring us back to pre 2008 levels of borrowing, i.e. below the rate of GDP growth so that that debt goes up but the level of debt to GDP goes down.
Its the same trick played by every Government, Tory and Labour since at least the 1970s. The only reason the debt to GDP ratio fell so sharply in the 1980s was due to the effect of inflation.
The long term goal should be to run a surplus! That's the only way we'll ever start to pay back our phenomenal debt. That means we need to reverse our trade deficit. Boiling the economy down to funamentals, money in > money out of the economy can be the only option.
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Austerity is for the little people, not for those at the top or their corporate chums.
Considering the Tories raised VAT from 8% to 17.5% within 12 years (1979-1991), which was a 9.5% increase, no it doesn't.
And they raised it VAT again from 17.5% to 20.0% in June 2010.
It was a 120% increase. The VAT rate increased by 9.5 percentage points.
In Norway, Sweden and Denmark the standard rate of VAT is 25%.
well said, austerity means nothing to them
It was always about ideology and sadist tendencies.
this always makes me chuckle - the usual suspects keep saying we should aspire to copy the policies of the Nordic countries, yet when it is suggested raising taxes to the same levels they complain no end.
If they privatise the state sector like they did British Rail, it will be even worse - we take the risk, we put the money in, the private companies take the money.
That's the whole point of getting rich.:rolleyes:
There is no 'point' in getting rich.
"David Cameron has suggested that public spending should continue to be squeezed in a "fundamental culture change" that would leave the British public sector "permanently" slimmed down."
"Shadow chancellor George Osborne's speech to the 2007 Conservative Party conference:
"I have committed us to two per cent a year spending rises for the next three years.
This will mean real increases for our public services.""
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7022498.stm
No wonder they deleted their pre-election promises from the Conservative website.
The long term goal should be to run a surplus! That's the only way we'll ever start to pay back our phenomenal debt. That means we need to reverse our trade deficit. Boiling the economy down to funamentals, money in > money out of the economy can be the only option.
Of course there is a point, it allows you to not be poor.
Why would anybody think austerity is going to affect those with money?
Getting rich is for other people to do, so we can tax them - which means other people don't have to work or bother.
Simple don't vote LibLabCon any more cos Labour are committed to exactly the sane spending cuts which in practice see spending going up.
We need real change not another PPE graduate who has never done a proper job in charge.
I'm afraid marry on PR would give us a chance of that.
lets hope this is true
Not sure how they came to that conclusion given many people support the idea of a smaller leaner more efficient state.
Er... what?
thats sanity in my book
as with all current society the borrow now pay later culture is rife
I just see it as stealing from your children
so morally bankrupt