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recycled
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Yes we can .No more money /flats for teenage mums. I never got any when my wife was pregnant
Not enough done. Build more nuclear power stations then oil will not be in demand at all. Plus windmills
Yes I eat meat, but if cows were taxed per methane they give out, price of meat will go up. I may stop. It is a valid point to consider
Building control Not enough .Far more houses being built in green belt areas on parks and on vegetation. E.g. ****nals ground, the new Liverpool ground, countless of new buildings on flood plains causing blockages and floods.
Far too many houses still being built
Lay off the car owners please.
It is too much. There is a proposal to make car fines pay for domestic violence.
Why do we not make people with white shirts pay more taxes too?
Do you realise how much energy and unrenewable resource goes into white shirt production?
More like to attack the easiest tax to collect
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Its a fact that the gulf stream that comes from the Canaries is getting weaker, this has been going on for years, the same goes for the North atlantic drift that goes into Strömstad in Sweden, they have been monitoring it for hundreds of years and its been going on a long time. much of the fact that these cycles happen every few thousand years get ignored when money is involved
nickg
MB Enthusiast
PURlease guys - lets not mix 2 issues up in this thread:
- global warming/human impact thereon
- government opportunistically taxing those wealthy enough to buy nice cars
The 1st issue will be debated ad infinitum, until something more interesting comes along (can't we talk about something more interesting like the run on N Rock/ sterling / house prices???) and will never be settled here, though it does make for interesting reading, and raised blood pressure at times............
The 2nd is far more straightforward. I don't recall a better opportunity for politicians to dress up tax increases on the well off.
I believe several other countries have some sort of luxury car tax, some much higher than the proposed £2k here. So its not so much the fact that they plan to impose such as tax that irks, it is:
a) yet again, the false pretence that goes with it; and
b) the intensely irritating thought of how they will no doubt waste our money.
I know its a bit OT but have you heard about the plan to p*** away £70m to give pregnant women £120 each that they are supposed to go and spend on "healthy food"? And this at a time when midwife numbers are falling due to lack of funding. HAVE THEY COMPLETELY LOST THE PLOT OR WHAT ???
The proposed envy tax on people with nice cars is just another ken-style stunt to impress the proles and penalise a minority group - the "well off".
It will make negligible difference to pollution levels, congestion levels etc etc.
Quote from SMMT report (http://www.smmt.co.uk/news/Detailed...iendly=undefined&CFID=408022&CFTOKEN=99447893)
Some have suggested that one in five new models sold in London is a 4x4 / SUV. This is wholly inaccurate. In 2006, new registrations of 4x4/SUV vehicles in London totalled 10,338 units - 5.6 per cent of the capital's total new car market. That's around one in 17. Across the UK, 175,805 4x4s/SUVs were registered as new in 2006, 7.5 per cent of 2.34 million new car sales. Nearly half of the 4x4s registered do not fall in Band G.
- global warming/human impact thereon
- government opportunistically taxing those wealthy enough to buy nice cars
The 1st issue will be debated ad infinitum, until something more interesting comes along (can't we talk about something more interesting like the run on N Rock/ sterling / house prices???) and will never be settled here, though it does make for interesting reading, and raised blood pressure at times............
The 2nd is far more straightforward. I don't recall a better opportunity for politicians to dress up tax increases on the well off.
I believe several other countries have some sort of luxury car tax, some much higher than the proposed £2k here. So its not so much the fact that they plan to impose such as tax that irks, it is:
a) yet again, the false pretence that goes with it; and
b) the intensely irritating thought of how they will no doubt waste our money.
I know its a bit OT but have you heard about the plan to p*** away £70m to give pregnant women £120 each that they are supposed to go and spend on "healthy food"? And this at a time when midwife numbers are falling due to lack of funding. HAVE THEY COMPLETELY LOST THE PLOT OR WHAT ???
The proposed envy tax on people with nice cars is just another ken-style stunt to impress the proles and penalise a minority group - the "well off".
It will make negligible difference to pollution levels, congestion levels etc etc.
Quote from SMMT report (http://www.smmt.co.uk/news/Detailed...iendly=undefined&CFID=408022&CFTOKEN=99447893)
Some have suggested that one in five new models sold in London is a 4x4 / SUV. This is wholly inaccurate. In 2006, new registrations of 4x4/SUV vehicles in London totalled 10,338 units - 5.6 per cent of the capital's total new car market. That's around one in 17. Across the UK, 175,805 4x4s/SUVs were registered as new in 2006, 7.5 per cent of 2.34 million new car sales. Nearly half of the 4x4s registered do not fall in Band G.
