Message from @wacka
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More important to scrap VAT on fuel than to increase the tax-free allowance
vat is a tool you want to keep in the emergency case of a recession
if there is a recession they can reduce it to 15% or something
Nobody is suggesting scrapping VAT entirely, just removing it from essentials where tax is disproportionately affecting the poor
and further if necessary...
if you reduce it now it wont be as effective
Then you want to keep people poor
Tax breaks for the wealthy, fuck the poor up the arse - it's the Tory way
Hell will freeze over before they address the cost of living
its not fckin the poor ... its being responsible
its telling people they can have desert when they finished their meal
its telling the kid they cant have another chocolate bar, theyve just had one
It really isn't though
youre not starving the kid... youre being responsible
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
we're in one of the wealthiest nations, its not like we're not offering free housing etc
Give tax breaks to the wealthy instead of reducing tax on essentials
yeah I need to upgrade my heating too...
Tax the working class in order to give wage subsidies to corporations
How about stop doing all these things?
the boiler here is the one that was put in when the property was built... they dont do parts for it anymore
luckily thanks to the tories I have a bigger personal allowance, plus they scrapped ftb stamp duty, which saved me about 10k
its not enough for me to afford a new boiler... but its something
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
housing has never been affordable
Why should I support a party that doesn't give a fuck about me?
support who you lke
Certainly doesn't share my principles and ideology
Perhaps i'll vote Labour after all
if you want a tax-hike and more bloat - go for it
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.
Simply isn't good enough to rely on "at least we're not the other guys" as a position, Wacka
There isn't going to be a shake-up
I know that
It takes Tories having the shit kicked out of them in a vote for there to be a shake-up
But it also needs to happen
As the referendum proved
Labour wont do anything
And even then, they'll do everything they can to NOT move
They will make it equally worse
Of course Labour won't do anything