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People are annoying
They moan when taxes go up to help public services
They moan when they have low taxes but have crap public services
Labour lost the '92 election because the Tories whinged to 'The Sun' reading morons that they'd put up taxes... however Old Labour would do this to aid the country... but no the Tories won. Creating New Labour and now all parties are neither left nor right wing, just want to stay in power.
Or something like that.
They moan when taxes go up to help public services
They moan when they have low taxes but have crap public services
Labour lost the '92 election because the Tories whinged to 'The Sun' reading morons that they'd put up taxes... however Old Labour would do this to aid the country... but no the Tories won. Creating New Labour and now all parties are neither left nor right wing, just want to stay in power.
Or something like that.
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I agree with Insane Bartender 100%, which surprises me.
I know someone who has a just got a job after graduating and because of his proffession, earns only a little above the level to start paying it back.
He earns £18 a month interest on his loan, and pays back £15. Apparently you can't put up the amount that you pay back each month.
So he'll carry on paying £15... FOREVER! Because he'll never pay the bloody thing off.
Stupid or what!
He earns £18 a month interest on his loan, and pays back £15. Apparently you can't put up the amount that you pay back each month.
So he'll carry on paying £15... FOREVER! Because he'll never pay the bloody thing off.
Stupid or what!
unknown kernel wrote:
>They
> write it off once you're forty or something. That's the plan at the
> moment.
Um. If your like me (I graduated in the first year of the new regulations - 2000 I think), then they write it of when you retire, which is at 65. You should pay about 8% of anything yopu earn above 8K, which for me isn't too much. I don't worry about it because it just comes off my wages automatically like another tax (unlike thoses who graduated previous to 2000). I figure if I don't pay it off by the time I retire and they write it off, then I've lost nothing.
>They
> write it off once you're forty or something. That's the plan at the
> moment.
Um. If your like me (I graduated in the first year of the new regulations - 2000 I think), then they write it of when you retire, which is at 65. You should pay about 8% of anything yopu earn above 8K, which for me isn't too much. I don't worry about it because it just comes off my wages automatically like another tax (unlike thoses who graduated previous to 2000). I figure if I don't pay it off by the time I retire and they write it off, then I've lost nothing.
They write it off if you haven't started paying it back after 20 years. Since they've dropped the minimum wage at which you have to commence repayments, I believe that it's far better for you to get a decent job than to avoid paying it back.
What do you do when you get a statement from the student loans company? Personally I file mine down the back of the sofa. Thankfully I'm way below the threshold of having to pay any of it back. But when I go back to university next year to learn more pointless stuff I'll add another couple of thousand to the debt. They write it off once you're forty or something. That's the plan at the moment.
I think taxes should be a little better proportioned.
For example, those more likely to require NHS help should pay more taxes. More on cigarettes, more on alcohol, etc.
I also think that people with criminal convictions should pay higher taxes, for the trouble they have caused society, for at least 6 years following any conviction, or following release from prison, whichever is the later. This coming
And council tax is just criminal. You pay something like "8p a day" to have your bins collected once a week by idiots who half the time a)don't tuen up or b) don't take your rubbish anyway. You pay 50p a day for police protection, and I live literally 2 minutes walk from a police station, yet when I call them out, it takes them almost half an hour to arrive TO AN EMERGENCY.
I also think there should be a tax penalty for people who fail their exams miserably. Say you fail more than so many GCSEs, thus wasting 11 years of education, you should then go up a tax band for the ensuing 11 years.
Stuff like that.
For example, those more likely to require NHS help should pay more taxes. More on cigarettes, more on alcohol, etc.
I also think that people with criminal convictions should pay higher taxes, for the trouble they have caused society, for at least 6 years following any conviction, or following release from prison, whichever is the later. This coming
And council tax is just criminal. You pay something like "8p a day" to have your bins collected once a week by idiots who half the time a)don't tuen up or b) don't take your rubbish anyway. You pay 50p a day for police protection, and I live literally 2 minutes walk from a police station, yet when I call them out, it takes them almost half an hour to arrive TO AN EMERGENCY.
I also think there should be a tax penalty for people who fail their exams miserably. Say you fail more than so many GCSEs, thus wasting 11 years of education, you should then go up a tax band for the ensuing 11 years.
Stuff like that.
I'll just say that I wouldn't want to have to run the country and make these sort of decisions, and considering the state of some countries I don't think I have too much to complain about. Well okay maybe student loans, but I'll leave it at that :p
Rosalind wrote:
> I don't think you should have a go at people who dislike tax, until you > have struggeled to pay the rent because the council gits decide that you
> owe them £140 in back tax out of the blue.
Yeah thats rough, but you agree in general dont you? I mean, our public services are terrible because for 20 years the Tories and New Labour (who followed their spending plans) didnt invest, and so didnt raise taxes greatly (bar inflation etc) either. Thats why we are less heavily taxed than Europe and have worse services.
> I don't think you should have a go at people who dislike tax, until you > have struggeled to pay the rent because the council gits decide that you
> owe them £140 in back tax out of the blue.
Yeah thats rough, but you agree in general dont you? I mean, our public services are terrible because for 20 years the Tories and New Labour (who followed their spending plans) didnt invest, and so didnt raise taxes greatly (bar inflation etc) either. Thats why we are less heavily taxed than Europe and have worse services.
I doubt you pay much past VAT. Your a student aren't you. I don't think you should have a go at people who dislike tax, until you have struggeled to pay the rent because the council gits decide that you owe them £140 in back tax out of the blue.
He pays VAT.
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