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Sunday, June 19, 2005

Fair Play #2

Returning to the Gorse Fox's theme of Fair Play. This week sees the following:

Home Improvement Tax


  • You got to the DIY store and buy tools with which to work on your house. You pay VAT on their purchase - and part of their purchase price was calculated to cover the tax incurred on transporting them to the store.
  • You go to the store for decorative coverings. You pay VAT etc.,
  • You go to the store and by lumbar, bricks, and mortar. Tou pay VAT.
  • You spend the few hours you have free to improve your home using the above. You have paid tax on all of items used, but will actually pay tax on the improved state of your home. Is that Fair?

Pensions


  • You now work until the end of May before earning any money for youself - prior to that it all goes to the government.
  • In addition, they steal £5B from the pension schemes
  • MPs receive an exceptional pension.
  • Civil Servants recieve what is known as a "gold standard" pension
  • The governemnt is worried about the blackhole forming in pensions schemes.
  • To solve the problem they want you to work until you're 70. Is that Fair?

Cretins


  • You are trapped in a traffic queue (because the Odious Deputy Prime Minister has again decided against the Arundel by-pass).
  • Right line filters right, Left lane is left turn only. You sit patiently in right lane.
  • A cretin in a BMW sweeps up the lft lane and forces his way into you lane in front of you because he cannot be bothered to a) follow the rules of the road, b) recognise that the traffic will actually clear quicker by following the rules, c) recognise that other human beings occupy the planet. Is that Fair?


This theme will continue !

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