'Granny tax' slammed by Hampshire MPs (From Romsey Advertiser)

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  George4th wrote:
  

  Poppy22 wrote:
  

  Huffter wrote:
  Pensioners shouldn't be working anyway - not with the current levels of unemployment.

  Pensioners are taxed on their pensions from working, as you will be if you are a member of a pension scheme through work. They get you when you're working and they get you when you start to take your hard-earned pension as well!
  I'm disgusted with this cut on pensioners' allowances.
  I'm even more disgusted with the cut in so called top rate tax which, at only 50% was a joke when so many everyday taxpayers are already in the 40% tax bracket. There's no incentive for anyone to earn above £40,000 these days and governments need to be changing that, not making it easy for the richest of this country.
  The tax bands should be gradual from the basic rate up to, say 90%, for those earning millions. Ordinary people slogging hard to progress at work and provide for their families shouldn't face a tax hike of about 15% on anything they earn over the £40k approx threshold, while those earning £100k and more are laughing at the rest of the working population. They make sure they pay accountants to avoid tax or they move offshore. They need to be penalised with a "social tax" where they contribute MORE to people in poverty and the everyday person struggling in this country, not LESS than the rest of us! Many of us are effectively in poverty but unable to claim any benefits.
  The majority of taxpayers (or couples/families) are now on what must be average or slightly above average earnings yet it's us that are paying the bulk of taxes and the bulk of benefits in this country - totally unacceptable.
  We need some independent MPs, who don't have personal financial wealth!, elected if we're ever to see any changes, as the majority of our MPs have private wealth and are protecting that wealth at the expense of the majority of their electorate!
  Shame on our MPs and our current and past governments - all our major political parties are as bad as each other.

  You and many others have bought into the "perception" emblazoned across the media headlines.
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  Read the budget or listen to "experts" (not politically biased individuals) and then see what is in the budget.
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  As I see it, the main theme is to get the UK moving in a way that will eventually benefit us all!
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  Let's face it, the last Labour government got us into an awful mess (don't blame the bankers!) by vastly overspending and by not investing in ourselves. The current government was left with a pigs ear of an economy!

  Let's face it, the last Labour government had to cope with the mess that the international banking network had got, not just the UK, but virtually the whole world into.
  
  That is why Greece, Portugal, Spain etc are in a financial mess - or are you blaming that on Gordon Brown as well?
  
  When the financial 'solids' hit the fan, the Labour government took action to see that British Banks and Building Societies did not fail, which would have seen savers' money lost, and mortgage holders having their homes reposessed.
  
  This was done with no alternative solution offered by the opposition parties.
  
  If those problems were not enough, there were a number of city and local councils that also had to be bailed out because they had invested in Icelandic banks. They had to be helped, otherwise they would have been bankrupt, with their staff not being paid and would have seen services collapse.
  
  That was a problem that was Not caused by government overspending, but but by the domino effect of a failed American Bank, with international repercussions.
  
  To date, despite the Holier than thou Cameron government bellyaching about the mess that Labour left them, they are digging an even deeper hole for us to get out of, with borrowing continuing at an ever greater rate.
  
  Their solution?
  
  Cut the upper rate of tax and screw the pensioners."
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