Tommy G Posted 6 October 2009 Posted 6 October 2009 raise the over £150k taxband to 60% instead. Not a vote winner but if that means the likes of Adebayor are earning less ££££ then I'm happy.
Jon the Hat Posted 6 October 2009 Posted 6 October 2009 raise the over £150k taxband to 60% instead. Not a vote winner but if that means the likes of Adebayor are earning less ££££ then I'm happy. It doesn't, footballers negotiate on the basis of take home pay. And given in Spain footballers get special excemption and only pay 24% tax, that means our football clubs have to pay approximately 40% more in wages for the player to take home the same money. For Real Madrid that means they are paying Ronaldo so much less that it pays for Kaka. Still think it is a good idea?
stez Posted 6 October 2009 Posted 6 October 2009 i agree with almost all of what JTH said (annoyingly my internet connection is so bad i can't quote it!) however, the teachers are already getting mardy about what george osbourne said about a public sector pay freeze (above 18k and excluding the armed forces). apparently the public sector is the real wealth creator in the country. it's quite obvious that when belts need to be tightened it's everyone but the public sector wrokers the trouble is with cutting jobs (where evr they may be) is it'll wind up with not all of them getting a job, thus raising the amount paid out, by the govenment tax payer. raise taxes put VAT up and on more things
Steven Posted 6 October 2009 Posted 6 October 2009 It's inevitably that cuts to central government and local government will happen, there's already suggestions filtering out from the respective parties. Apparently there needs to be a 20% just to keep our heads above water I'm not sure how many billions that is but you can be sure it's going to cut deep and affect everyone.What would you cut and why and how would it save money? Get out of the stupid armed conflicts where America keeps using us as a fig leaf for their naked aggression. Glad to see the dollar is tanking. Scrap ID Cards and all the other surveillance set by New Fascist Labour. <_<
MPH Posted 6 October 2009 Posted 6 October 2009 4) Cut the BBC license fee by 25%. They need to ditch the concept of Global news provider and concentrate on those who are actually pay i would scrap the licence fee altogether and allow the bbc to have adverts... phase the fee out gradually over the next 2-3 years whilst they get to grip with the whole advertising malarkey..
Webbo Posted 6 October 2009 Posted 6 October 2009 i would scrap the licence fee altogether and allow the bbc to have adverts...phase the fee out gradually over the next 2-3 years whilst they get to grip with the whole advertising malarkey.. I'm as free market a tory as anybody but I think if we did that then we'd soon regret it. Not only would constant adverts get tedious but there is only so much advertising money about. Not only would the BBC get worse but the comercial stations would end up with less funding making them worse too.
davieG Posted 6 October 2009 Author Posted 6 October 2009 I'm as free market a tory as anybody but I think if we did that then we'd soon regret it. Not only would constant adverts get tedious but there is only so much advertising money about. Not only would the BBC get worse but the comercial stations would end up with less funding making them worse too. Especially going into a massive recession where advertising revenues will take a big hit.
Guest Posted 6 October 2009 Posted 6 October 2009 I think that the whole concept of "managers" needs to be looked at. Some areas have too many, others not enough. I would also stop tax payers money going to those who can pay their own way. This would be the long term unemployed/"scroungers", prisoners, etc. There are enough things that they could be doing to earn their keep.
AoWW Posted 6 October 2009 Posted 6 October 2009 My toenails need cutting. And my hair... I've got split ends.
Head Honcho Posted 6 October 2009 Posted 6 October 2009 Firstly, I would cut benefits for the long term incapacitated, who are able to perform other tasks. I would then pull out every single last troop in Irag/Afghanistan, as sod all has come from it. I would cut out the need for quangos. Pointless waste of money. I would probably cut alot more things, after getting carried away with all the cutting I'd be doing... Out of interest. Do you have any idea about what's going on in Afghanistan and Iraq or is this just what you've read in the papers?
Zingari Posted 6 October 2009 Posted 6 October 2009 student grants , i'd just give them £1 pocket money and they should do part time work for any more ( maybe the better looking females could go on the game or something,.......... and possibly the better looking boys too ). old age pensions scrapped ; the feckers are living just too long . i expect a big applause for these suggestions
Thracian Posted 6 October 2009 Posted 6 October 2009 Well, let's get a proper idea of how much "cutting" there may need to be... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-41...ent-claims.html By any and every standard it's indecent, irresponsible and an almost incomprehensible sum. Anyway a serious bitz on Quangos would represent a largely popular cutback and one of some significance even if the displaced persons would then have to find something useful to do. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/156...of-quangos.html Relatively small savings could be made in all sorts of directions especially given how much this government has frittered away. Abolition of universal Child Benefit, for instance, would save £7.1 billion (after making allowance for additional expenditure of £5 billion on providing only for the poorest families). Raising the retirement age for all would result in substantial benefits providing there was sufficient investiment in jobs creation. And it would give people of my age a sense of usefulness instead of their being prematurely written off and being increasingly confined to the category "dependent". But strange as it may seem the brightest course may be to lower taxation. Okay that's not a cut but it might well have the same effect on our national debt. Cutting taxes has been shown to substantially increase revenue into the government coffers. J.F. Kennedy explained it thus... Lower taxation stimulates the economy through spending both at the personal level and in business. When businesses expand, they hire more people which puts them in a higher tax bracket meaning more corporation tax. The more jobs a company creates the more people pay taxes. It also generates optimistic spending. People buy more when they have more. That is how it works and has, apparently, worked every time it has been done. Conversely with increased taxation comes the loss of jobs, the loss of tax collected and the increased cost of people drawing benefit. Firms also abandon expansion plans ending any hopes of new jobs being created and the loss of tax to the government means an end to government projects and the jobs they create. Not good. The problem is not that the Government can't bring down the national debt, the problem is they spend whatever they get, especially a Labour government because they forever believe they know best how to spend your money and therefore take far too much of it. Sadly they don't know better and, in fact, the amount they waste is scandalous.
Webbo Posted 6 October 2009 Posted 6 October 2009 Abolition of universal Child Benefit, for instance, would save £7.1 billion (after making allowance for additional expenditure of £5 billion on providing only for the poorest families). I can't agree with you there Thrac. Not only are means tested benefits demoralising and a disincentive to work they are also expensive to administer. And without wanting to come the 'poor me' they meant the difference between eating and not eating when I was a kid.
Head Honcho Posted 6 October 2009 Posted 6 October 2009 They should take a leaf out of Thatchers book and raise interest rates. I'm sure £200-£300 a month into the coffers from every mortgage holder in the UK will go a long way to paying off the national debt! Privatise the National Lottery. I think that's the only thing the tories haven't had a chance to sell! No cuts needed.
Zingari Posted 6 October 2009 Posted 6 October 2009 why does there have to be cuts ? can't the government go to ocean finance or something and consolidate it's loans into an affordable monthly repayment plan ?
Webbo Posted 6 October 2009 Posted 6 October 2009 They should take a leaf out of Thatchers book and raise interest rates.I'm sure £200-£300 a month into the coffers from every mortgage holder in the UK will go a long way to paying off the national debt! But that money wouldn't go to the govt and I think that the govt would have to pay back the national debt at that higher interest rate too. Privatise the National Lottery. I think that's the only thing the tories haven't had a chance to sell! Camelot is a private company.
Guest Posted 6 October 2009 Posted 6 October 2009 why does there have to be cuts ?can't the government go to ocean finance or something and consolidate it's loans into an affordable monthly repayment plan ? Maybe they'll take Carol Vorderman on as Chancellor of the Exchequer too
Head Honcho Posted 6 October 2009 Posted 6 October 2009 But that money wouldn't go to the govt and I think that the govt would have to pay back the national debt at that higher interest rate too.Camelot is a private company. What are you on about? Of course the government recieve the money! Who do you think gets it? Camelot does not own the lottery they just run it.
Webbo Posted 6 October 2009 Posted 6 October 2009 What are you on about? Of course the government recieve the money! Who do you think gets it?Camelot does not own the lottery they just run it. The banks?
lou Posted 6 October 2009 Posted 6 October 2009 MP's salaries MP's expenses Senior Administrator jobs in the NHS/Civil Service Stupid and un-necessary payments like all pregnant women getting £500 allowance on top of their usual benefits. (cynical I may be but I cant imagine all of them spend it on baby gear)
fox123 Posted 6 October 2009 Posted 6 October 2009 Privatise The Tote - Coral had a £890 Million bid rejected by the Government 3 Years ago, they're still trying to sell it! Cut EMA from £30 a week to £20. Agree with the benefits system being shaken up, people moved from Incapacity Benefits - JSA etc.
l444ry Posted 6 October 2009 Posted 6 October 2009 In 2005, Tony Blair had the masochism strategy – inviting voters to pour ordure over the Prime Minister. In 2009, it appears that George Osborne is adopting the Sadism strategy. Going out of their way to stress that frontline public sector workers like the police, nurses and firefighters, those looking forward to retirement, and those about to start a familiy will all suffer under the Tories, while those inheriting multi-million pound estates will benefit. They’re clearly hoping for credit for honesty. “This is going to hurt you a lot more than me…” Well, I think we can stop accusing them of having no policies now.
Bryn Posted 6 October 2009 Posted 6 October 2009 student grants , i'd just give them £1 pocket money and they should do part time work for any more Please don't lump us all in with the cretins doing doss courses. I can assure you that if I am forced to get a part-time job, I won't make it to registering with the GMC, life is hard enough as it is.
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