Don't even get me started.
Mandatory driving test every 5 years, fail it once, get a retest, fail twice and you're banned for 6 months. Drive during any driving ban, from this or anything else = £5000 fine or seizure of goods.
If you don't have the goods or money - chain gang doing community service
Saw another woman driver with a phone to her ear just after 5.30 today, not even remotely GAS.
Hanging for murder and all sex crimes (yes it's complicated - don't care)
Mandatory national service.
Any person who ends up convicted of a crime more serious than a parking fine lose all voting rights for
up to 5 years - all persons in prison lose the right to vote at all for the period of incarceration and 2 years after that (and who thought giving them the vote was a good idea?)
MP's no longer able to give themselves pay rises - make it based on "customer satisfaction".
All medical professionals, teachers and associated staff, firemen and police force salaries increased by a base factor of 30% (would prefer it doubled but can't afford it).
Corporation tax increased, plus income from selling of corporate shares over a value of £1,000,000 when said person worked for that company at ANY position in a UK based office, taxed at a higher rate 60% (still less than the top rate in the 70's - basically fat cats cashing in thier share bonuses.)
Inheritance tax threshold increased to £1,000,000 - so most "ordinary folk" and thier families get to keep most of thier money, without having to pay for expensive financial advice that's often financially out of reach of Mr and Mrs Schmoe (and my father was a financial advisor for St James' Place Wealth Management; Formerly J Rothschilds Assurance Group, since inception in 1991 and previously in the industry since the late 70's - that's yet another "this would have affected me too" situation.
yeah I could go on and on.
Sheffield Tony":fwg07j7s said:
ColeyS1":fwg07j7s said:
I'd do the opposite. Increase it to properly fund social care. Put an end to the terrible discrimination against dementure sufferers - get cancer, heart disease etc, get looked after at the state's expense - get dementure, nothing left for anyone to pay inheritance tax on.
So literally, like - what's ur beef?
I'm half with you, except for the issue of cancer sufferers who smoked more than 1 per day for any sustained period, and heart patients who overate and did almost no exercise (and still don't) despite every specialists recommendations, or alcoholics being on the same waiting list as a teetotal for a new liver.
You want to properly fund social care? - CHARGE those people what it costs to help them**, rather than tax the people who were careful with thier money and saved for their old age, then had some left over to help thier living relatives.
A friend of mine was quoted £5,000 PER WEEK to care for his elderly parents, just for getting old and after a lifetime of being a higher rate tax payers, and paying their NI - yet I'll bet there is a high percentage of people getting NHS care for illnesses, diseases and injuries that were "self inflicted".
** chances are it'll also act as a bloody strong deterrant too - yes I KNOW it's complicated, but a line HAS to be drawn somewhere.
Oh and giving birth - you get three for free, after that - you pay full rate (which as of figures in 2017 is about £13,000 all in pre, and post care. Yeah £13,000 EACH). No more council house queens squirting out 6 kids and getting two council houses knocked together to live in.
Council Tax the way it was SUPPOSED to be (Poll tax) - that's a nice fat jump in revenue right there.
I live in a 4 bed house, converted to 6 bed (landlord owned), in a not so nice part of Bristol, and the house is worth £360k with a Ctax rate of £1982 per year or 0.55 % of current value.
My father lives in a 6 bed house, in a NICE area of Surrey, in a private road, with 1/4 acre of land, a 1/4 olympic size indoor heated pool, a double garage, gym and sauna; property value £1.37 million.
His CTax? £3,000 or 0.21% of value.
I'm being screwed.
Increasing the tax percentage on inheritance tax will have the opposite effect, savvy people will sell up and blow the lot or dump it in the myriad ways you can make money disappear - it's hard enough catching the ones who do as it is (remember all that broohaha a few years back with all those celebrities?) - and HMRC already fails more often than it successfully claims what was payable - increasing the tax will just increase the amount of people doing the above and swamping the already ineffective HMRC.
"Higher taxes" for the common folk isn't the answer - never was.
What's needed is more effective spending and less time and money wasted on stupid "nanny state" oversight in the civil services.
A friend of mine was quoted £5,000 PER WEEK to care for his elderly parents, just for getting old and after a lifetime of being a higher rate tax payers, and paying their NI - yet I'll bet there is a high percentage of people getting NHS care for illnesses, diseases and injuries that were "self inflicted".
People who who dangerous sports should have to buy healthcare insurance against injury. That includes pretty much any sport that has heavy bodily contact, even rugby.
(oh and again I'm in BOTH of the (ex) smoker + not as fit or slim as I should be categories, before anyone starts pointing fingers, plus I used to do martial arts and extreme sports; snowboarding skiiing, rollerblading on roads, downhill MTB trials, archery, clay pigeon shooting, windsurfing and more besides - so yeah insurance against injury should be a thing in the UK same as it is elsewhere.)
Oh and if you stick your head in a microwave and pour plaster of paris in to make a mould and you start to suffocate - I'd call that "natural selection". Calling the fire service to cut you out for FREE not an option.
Balance that first mate - then we'll talk.
(far as I'm concerned George Best should never have been given another liver)
Sorry this was meant to be a lighthearted thread - but some things really get up my nose.
/gets off soapbox.
