Old Holborn: Big Issue, Sir?

This post made me laugh, laugh and laugh again. Worth it for thast, without the point it  neatly makes. Link at the bottom. 

It costs us £1M to produce this, thanks to Socialists

Revolutionary. The founder of the Big Issue, John Bird has demanded that the Govt slash benefits. His logic is absolutely flawless.

80% of people selling the Big Issue were raised in social care programmes costing over £2000 a week. If they've been in care for ten years, that's cost you and I £1M for each and every one of them. In comparison, sending them to Eton for ten years would have cost just a quarter of that.

Just think of the misery spared, the opportunities and avenues opened up by a first class education, the payback in productive and responsible citizens. Cracking idea. Now, let's see private schools applying to councils to take their vulnerable children in care away from a life of crime, drugs and alcohol and into a life of education, responsibility and personal wealth.

Will it happen? Will it fuck. The state has built an enormous and expensive apparatus for churning out "victims" who will need to be fed, housed and clothed exclusively by the State. No way are half a million social workers, "outreach" workers and diversity coordinators going to hand over their budgets and jobs to people who actually get the job done at a quarter of the cost.

"Please stay poor. My job and pension depend on it"

John goes further. By slashing benefits, the drugs trade will collapse, along with fast food outlets and betting shops. All happily sponsored using OUR money to keep people in poverty and misery

If you were applying for a job in a private company, no one would expect the same generous pension as were on offer 20 years ago. The same should apply to the benefits system

Do it. Cut hard and cut now. No one wants to be revisiting this in five years time. Free the poor from the clutches of the State. At last.

Link: Old Holborn: Big Issue, Sir?

Taxes rise today. A cut in International Aid? Not likely...

The UK International Aid and Development Department, trading under the QUANGO like name of UKAID, has wasted away an average of £6,500,000,000 each year for the last five years. That's approximately £32,500,000,000.

Some of it is even went to China and Russia in the past few weeks.

 

This year the budget is to be "ring fenced" i.e. whilst YOU watch taxes rise on the things YOU want, the UKAID budget has spiraled to £10,000,000,000. And it will keep growing: 

It is believed that Paris-based Unesco and the Food and Agriculture Organisation, based in Rome, are two organisations that will be closely scrutinised. 

Guardian,  9th June 2010

However:

The coalition government has pledged to increase spending on aid in order to meet the United Nations target of 0.7% of national output by 2013.

Guardian, 9th June 2010

This of course  is only a small part of the torrent of British money thrown into the vast black hole that the African continent is. Trillions of pounds have been alloted since 1945, and  what is  Africa like today?

Large swathes of Africa are in a semi-permanent tribal war. The vast majority of Africa is operated and owned by the most brutal and evil dictators, who make Stalin, Mao and Hitler look like Sunday School teachers.

Crime runs rampant and uncontrolled.

Police corruption is endemic.

Child Rape operates uncontrolled, and is widely accepted: here, and here and here.

So, remember, when you're being BLED DRY for taxes to BAIL OUT the CITY OF LONDON you can be assured this paragon of virtue and here and here. will be kept in the style to which YOU have made and encouraged him accustomed to:

ConDem to Announce Tax Rises of £10 Billion, but Foreign Aid “Ring Fenced” at £13 Billion

The ConDem government’s plans to announce £10 billion of tax rises in Tuesday’s emergency budget stands in shocking contrast to their pledge to increase foreign aid to £13 billion per year.

The planned £10 billion across-the-board tax increase, leaked by the Sunday Times, will include rises in VAT and capital gains tax in addition to the increase in National Insurance already announced by the previous Labour regime.

According to the report, tax on alcohol, tobacco duty and air travel will also increase in the budget to be presented by Chancellor George Osborne.

He will also apparently outline £40 billion of spending cuts which will include a freeze on the wages of civil servants (except MPs, no doubt) and will cut benefits payments to middle class families.

It is mind-boggling that Mr Osborne and his coalition gang have the nerve to demand of British people that they pay extra tax which could easily be made up by simply slashing the foreign aid budget.

Apart from the foreign aid budget, other places where billions could be shaved off the budget include the annual costs of £18 billion spent on “global warming,” the £13 billion spent on immigration, the £4 billion spent on asylum, the £15 billion spent on EU membership, the £5 billion per year spent fighting the illegal and immoral Afghanistan war and the billions spent on “politically correct” social engineering projects.

ConDem to Announce Tax Rises of £10 Billion, but Foreign Aid “Ring Fenced” at £13 Billion

The BNP is right on this one. Why are UK taxpayers being bled white when third world political psycopaths, titled President For Life and God of the World and sucjh other descriptors of liberty are being handed used £10 notes in bundles of a thousand?

VAT, the favourite tax of the wealthy Elite.

 Can the people in Britain be pushed to rebel?

There has been a great deal of chit chat about the potentiality of a rise in VAT, the Value Added Tax imposed on the British people because the EEC (the forerunner of the EU) demanded it. Here's a PDF all about introduction of the VAT, click here to download it.

Most people live in ignorance of this tax, because it is collected without you seeing it, by the seller of the goods.We are financially raped with every transaction made.

In principle, VAT applies to all provisions of goods and services. VAT is assessed and collected on the value of goods or services that have been provided every time there is a transaction (sale/purchase). The seller charges VAT to the buyer, and the seller pays this VAT to the government. If, however, the purchaser is not an end user, but the goods or services purchased are costs to its business, the tax it has paid for such purchases can be deducted from the tax it charges to its customers. The government only receives the difference; in other words, it is paid tax on the gross margin of each transaction, by each participant in the sales chain.

Wikipedia.

Very nice blurb, but not the truth. The VAT exists to hide the full tax take, to obscure how much is bled from the economy each and very day. Billions are collected and simply pissed away on rubbish, such as immigrants, worthless educational qualifications, war in the Gulf, PC garbage etc et al. Remove this trash, and we can CUT TAXES, whilst spending what does come in more wisely and with greater singular purpose.

VAT impoverishes the poor, as it is levied on virtually EVERYTHING people do: 

UK Fact-File Part 2: Individual Business Domestic Taxation 2.10 UK Value Added Tax (VAT) VAT is charged on most goods and services. VAT can only be charged or reclaimed by a VAT-registered business or individual. VAT is charged on certain goods or services sold (output tax) and can be claimed back on VAT paid on goods or services purchased (input tax). The standard rate of VAT reverted to 17.5% from 15% on 1st January, 2010; a reduced rate of 5% applies inter alia to domestic fuel or power, heating equipment, children’s car seats, some contraceptives and sanitary products, and certain residential property renovations. Included in the list of supplies that are zero-rated are gold and UK bank notes, books, children’s clothing, charities, food, drugs & medicines, transport and sewage, water services, goods supplies to other VAT-registered entities within the EU, and certain transactions related to the construction of residential property. Personal Business Tax Guide The POOR and AVERAGE peoples spend a higher percentage then the WEALTHY of their incomes on the many items covered by VAT. ONLY those who are wealthy are the beneficiaries of this systematic grinding of the masses, and if we fail to act we will end up with the Communists wielding the whip - worse by far if you study the USSR. It is an absolutely wicked tax, with no redeeming quality. IF the Tory/LibDem coalition were SERIOUS about a reform to taxation they would introduce a FLAT TAX, with a minimum standard of existence level wherein you would recieve WELFARE PAYMENTS to make up your income to at least subsistence level. No more odd little allowances, just a basic rate of tax for everyone, simple, easy, a percentage. An example:  Earned £50,000 in total, with shares, savings, etc ? Basic allowance £25000? Tax payable? 10% of £25000 = £2500. Simple, huh? No other taxes. No electricity tax, no petrol tax, no clothing taxes, tampon taxes or anything else. Alongside of this however: The national debt? A fixed term levy on stuff that is a choice, until it is paid down: A 10% tax on fast food, gold and silver, carbonated drinks, high performance cars, fur based clothing, DVD/CDs, alcohol and tobacco products, video games, internet access, and the rubbish the rich fritter their cash away on (which is their choice) , including a tax on home sales where the house is worth 5 times the average for a three bedroom house in the district,  collected and paid directly to our lenders (through the buy back of government bonds - GILTS) to amortize - KILL - the debt. And then it stops. Finally we need to accept that the Welfare system is broken beyond repair, and do something different, probably leaving people to choose what they do outside the national minimum subsistence level.

BBC lards it's staff in South Africa whilst laughing at the taxpayers.

So it's world cup time again. The economy mazy be disappearing up it's own arse in Her Britannic Majesty's realms, but in liberal media world it's free salaried trips abroad again, with the likes of Nicky Campbell (among a cast of dozens) who have decided that the BBC should allow them a nice holiday.

You are getting made redundant?

You are facing pay cuts?

Lost your home?

Credit cards or loans getting nasty?

Not for the staffs of Radio 5 Live and Five Live Extra, who are, at your expense, having the times of their lives. You could let Nicky and his BBC colleagues know how much you too would like a nice vacation at the taxpayer's expense, as he's having regular 0900 phone in.

Here come the tax rises - the poor to bail out the rich.

So it starts. The chit chat is over, now we are to bail out the banks. This isn't going to stop, it will go on (at least seemingly) forever. 

VAT is to rise to twenty percent. 

Value Added Tax is the creation of the EU.

It's why we didn't have VAT in Britain until we joined the European Economic Community.

 VAT is a punishment on the poor for their poverty, taking no account of their ability to pay, or wealth, just the price of the goods. 

It is redistributive, in the sense that the wealthy spend proportionately LESS on the purchase of GOODS and SERVICES than the POOR.

UK drinkers face double whammy price hike in budget.

Telegraph (UK) 12th June 2010

The Treasury is considering repeating the 5 per cent increase in alcohol duty imposed in the March Budget as part of a tax-raising package to be unveiled by George Osborne, the Chancellor, next week.

The emergency budget is also likely to see VAT increased from its current level of 17.5 per cent as ministers battle with Britain's huge £156 billion deficit. A VAT hike – possibly up to 20 per cent – would also hit drinkers in the pocket.

Last night industry leaders claimed drinkers had been "punished enough". The duty paid on beer and wine has risen 26 per cent since the start of 2008, while for spirits it has risen by 22 per cent.

However, the overall tax "take" from alcohol fell £730 million, from £15.117 in 2008 to £14.386 billion, in 2009, according to duty bulletins from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and provisional figures for total alcohol expenditure from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Another five per cent duty rise in the budget combined with an increase of 2.5 percentage point rise in the rate of VAT rate would put 19p on a bottle of Hardys VR Chardonnay, taking the wine's price to £4.74, while a bottle of Gordon's gin would rise 65p from £13.15 to £13.80.

The warnings of price rises came as Treasury sources told The Sunday Telegraph that ministers could come under ever greater pressure to put up taxes and identify swingeing spending cuts after new forecasts are published this week.

Tomorrow, the new independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) will publish revised growth forecasts which most experts believe will be sharply lower than the Treasury's current prediction of a 3.25 per cent for 2011 and 2.75 per cent for 2012.

Here, however is a pointer to the future: 

Newly elected Tory MP Sarah Wolleaston, a Devon GP, has said ministers should examine the evidence from other countries that setting minimum prices "disproportionately reduces the intake of high-risk groups".

She added: "There is no doubt it would be initially unpopular – people would say it's the nanny state and it's not what government should be about.

"But if the Government took the brave step of introducing a minimum price, in five years' time people would see there had been a major difference."

The British Medical Association has suggested a rate of 50p per unit of alcohol, which could mean a pint of medium-strength beer costing £1.14 (MORE ed.) and a bottle of wine £4.50.

The good times have gone. 

We are to be slowly impoverished. 

THIS is the moment that we can be pillaged for whatever asset we can hoard away, forced as we shall be to spend everything we have on day-to-day living. 

This period in which we live - now - is the moment that the wet dreams of the Thatcherites, "Free Marketeers", Victorian dreamers & fantasists come to pass. 

And sadly,  it's also the very time in which the poor sods who believed that "socialism", the Labour Party version of it,  will slowly realise it is is dead as an ideology. 

If you're doing well, then OK you'll most likely be  fine. However - the abyss awaits for those who fail. 

Go and buy some home brewing kit if you like your beer. If you like it in the pub, or cheap from Tescburys or Sainsbros, it's being priced out of your hands as we speak.  Wilkinsons offer a nice range, at a reasonable price.