Message from @wacka

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2019-11-20 15:04:22 UTC  

Need to scrap VAT on fuel

2019-11-20 15:05:34 UTC  

the vat part is only 5% I think

2019-11-20 15:05:42 UTC  

17.5% on diesel and petrol

2019-11-20 15:05:45 UTC  

theres all sorts of other taxes in fuel

2019-11-20 15:05:47 UTC  

sorry 20%

2019-11-20 15:06:04 UTC  

Either way, fuel isnt' a luxury, it's an essential, scrap VAT on it

2019-11-20 15:06:16 UTC  

depends on what you mean by fuel

2019-11-20 15:06:25 UTC  

heating oil, diesel, petrol, gas

2019-11-20 15:06:31 UTC  

your energy bill for your home is 5% vat

2019-11-20 15:06:40 UTC  

5% too much

2019-11-20 15:12:31 UTC  

More important to scrap VAT on fuel than to increase the tax-free allowance

2019-11-20 15:13:15 UTC  

vat is a tool you want to keep in the emergency case of a recession

2019-11-20 15:13:38 UTC  

if there is a recession they can reduce it to 15% or something

2019-11-20 15:13:43 UTC  

Nobody is suggesting scrapping VAT entirely, just removing it from essentials where tax is disproportionately affecting the poor

2019-11-20 15:13:47 UTC  

and further if necessary...

2019-11-20 15:13:57 UTC  

if you reduce it now it wont be as effective

2019-11-20 15:14:17 UTC  

Then you want to keep people poor

2019-11-20 15:15:57 UTC  

Tax breaks for the wealthy, fuck the poor up the arse - it's the Tory way

2019-11-20 15:16:52 UTC  

Hell will freeze over before they address the cost of living

2019-11-20 15:16:54 UTC  

its not fckin the poor ... its being responsible

2019-11-20 15:17:15 UTC  

its telling people they can have desert when they finished their meal

2019-11-20 15:17:40 UTC  

its telling the kid they cant have another chocolate bar, theyve just had one

2019-11-20 15:17:58 UTC  

It really isn't though

2019-11-20 15:17:59 UTC  

youre not starving the kid... youre being responsible

2019-11-20 15:18:33 UTC  

I can't afford to upgrade the heating or insulation in my house, yet the council fleeces the fuck out of me so they can give grants to already wealthy private landlords

2019-11-20 15:18:36 UTC  

we're in one of the wealthiest nations, its not like we're not offering free housing etc

2019-11-20 15:18:55 UTC  

Give tax breaks to the wealthy instead of reducing tax on essentials

2019-11-20 15:19:01 UTC  

yeah I need to upgrade my heating too...

2019-11-20 15:19:14 UTC  

Tax the working class in order to give wage subsidies to corporations

2019-11-20 15:19:23 UTC  

How about stop doing all these things?

2019-11-20 15:19:25 UTC  

the boiler here is the one that was put in when the property was built... they dont do parts for it anymore

2019-11-20 15:20:05 UTC  

luckily thanks to the tories I have a bigger personal allowance, plus they scrapped ftb stamp duty, which saved me about 10k

2019-11-20 15:20:40 UTC  

its not enough for me to afford a new boiler... but its something

2019-11-20 15:20:40 UTC  

Tories have done fuck all for me, except make the cost of purchasing property continue to rise out of affordability, and raise the cost of various planning procedures to an extortionate rate

2019-11-20 15:21:00 UTC  

housing has never been affordable

2019-11-20 15:21:38 UTC  

Why should I support a party that doesn't give a fuck about me?

2019-11-20 15:21:52 UTC  

support who you lke

2019-11-20 15:21:54 UTC  

Certainly doesn't share my principles and ideology

2019-11-20 15:22:51 UTC  

Perhaps i'll vote Labour after all

2019-11-20 15:24:56 UTC  

if you want a tax-hike and more bloat - go for it

2019-11-20 15:25:36 UTC  

Think we need to look at the bigger picture Socialism (marxist and national), communism along with many other platforms have not worked, the conservatives to me are bastards but there honest bastards i dont like them personally but Labour are bigger and worse than them in my book there isnt a fit party or handful of politicians in Westminster, Holyrood or the Welsh and Northern Irish assembly. There needs to be a complete shake up and revamp and people need to be at the centre of that none of them have the common sense or the balls to do it imo.