A nice piece about how people on low wages are betrayed by the Labour government’s recent tax changes-
Hoarding loose change. Always having to buy the cheapest groceries. Dreading the arrival of utility bills through the door. Britain’s low earners say their lives are already difficult enough. But changes to the tax system could mean that making ends meet becomes even harder for many.
Under the new system, standard income tax has been cut from 22% to 20% and tax credits raised – but the lowest 10p band has been scrapped entirely…
“As it is I always try to buy the cheapest own-brand groceries but it’s never enough. I’d love a fresh wardrobe but I can’t remember the last time I bought new clothes. I don’t think it should be people on low incomes who have to pay more. It should be those with higher incomes – like MPs.”
9 April, 2008 at 7:30 am
It’s not a nice piece, Rick.
9 April, 2008 at 7:44 am
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9 April, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Yes, not a nice policy but good on the journo for focussing on the impact on people which is the real point, whatever well paid nulabs say they have just screwed the lowest earners, also an element of social ‘family values’ engineering to it, absolute conservatism.
13 July, 2009 at 7:24 pm
I am astonished by Jon Kelley’s
publishment of UK’s pronouncement
of prison sentence for Simon Sheppard
and Stephen Whittle. I visited these
two gentlemen while they were held
in our Santa Ana Jail. My view of them
is entirely different from Jon Kelley’s
Bnai Brith and Company, when compared
against actual facts, are erroneous,
libelous. I hold little respect for Brits in
general, but I shall cherish my acquain-
tance with the Heretical Two, whom I
revere as Heroes.
13 July, 2009 at 9:24 pm
You might want be a bit more choosy as to your ‘Heroes’ being as they are holocaust denying anti-semitic cretins.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8010537.stm