Do try to be honest (From York Press)
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Do try to be honest
10:56am Friday 25th January 2013 in Letters By Reader's letter
MAY I lay down a simple challenge to those on the left in opposition to the Coalition’s deficit reductions?
If you wish to enter the debate by deploring a cut, could you try and be more intellectually honest with The Press’ readers and tell us where else you’d get the money to pay for it? I’ll start you off if you like: let’s cut Trident and invest that money in debt reduction, disability benefits and growth.
Or, of course, you could admit that you’d just continue the tradition of loading our country up on debt.
Regardless of who you blame for the state of the UK’s finances, the UK Government spends an alarming £125 million every day on paying the interest on its monumental loans.
It is often said that the Coalition’s deficit reduction are “ideologically driven”. Too right it is! I’m mad as hell that my generations’ taxes are going towards an irresponsible black hole of debt. It is my ideology that the next generation shouldn’t have to pay an ever-increasing part of their taxes towards debt interest.
If that means I have to go without debt-fuelled spending, so be it.
Andrew Butler, Selby.
Comments(10)
inthesticks
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12:35pm Fri 25 Jan 13
Bob Diamond - £11.5 million plus a £9 million bonus.
Is it fair game to bash someone in a wheelchair and steal what little benefit they get and allow these vomit inducing capitalist bankers to sit there rigging figures and laughing at us.
There was plenty of money in the pot, it`s just that the people who divide it up are thieves.
No growth = more people redundant and on the dole = more benefit payments + less taxes paid by workers - Net result = UK finances still stuffed; national debt is growing, not reducing.
Whatever ones `ideology` anyone can see the measures we have in place are not working.
Zetkin
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1:09pm Fri 25 Jan 13
sheps lad
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2:33pm Fri 25 Jan 13
YSTClinguist
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2:47pm Fri 25 Jan 13
Tug job
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6:04pm Fri 25 Jan 13
Why did the chicken cross the road?
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10:32pm Fri 25 Jan 13
Tug job wrote:Yes, I agree its disappointing he cant use apostrophe's correctly.
How about investing more in literacy classes to help people like Andrew use apostrophes correctly?
E=MC^2
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11:27am Sat 26 Jan 13
Micklegate
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12:48pm Sat 26 Jan 13
E=MC^2 wrote:Please give us your specifics for the rate you think each should be and what they would raise.
He’s not really been paying attention has he. The tax gap is estimated at £125 billion annually, then there is the financial Transaction Tax,which is now a goer in europe, a progressive and fairer income tax system, a land value tax which cannot be hidden offshore ....
jorvik
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1:28pm Sat 26 Jan 13
Zetkin wrote:Who like blair and brown?
Tax the filthy rich.
Yorkieand says...
11:45am Fri 25 Jan 13