Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu (Post 35545482)

My rent two years ago was £130 per week and in that time it has gone up to £180 per week.

I live in a normal three bedroom, but we have high overheads in this house, our electricity has gone up, council tax etc.

We have to find the cheapest place for fuel, as in my job l need my car, and yes l do work in the public sector, and l am fuming that the coalition come out with all this bedroom tax stuff and not once do they say right we will introduce a tax for the rich.

Yes, there are people that will take a job on a low wage, but how can you live on £15/16.000 per year. And the government have today given 100 million pounds to the Afgahan government to look for gems etc.

Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 35545269)

Didn't realise you were a Civil Servant, Arthur...

Originally Posted by Chris (Post 35545558)

High earners are paying so much tax it would make your eyes water Arthur, if you were forced to imagine paying it yourself. I know this will go in one ear and out the other, but it happens to be true. You could empty the bank account of every rich man in Britain and you still wouldn't have enough money to return to the illusion of wealth Liebour was portraying until the wheels fell off their debt-fuelled bandwagon in 2008.

You seem to want to live in a 1970s time warp in which hard work and rich rewards are punished by the state and our economy is stomped all over by high and mighty trade union barons. As fantasies go, I think it's quite perverse.