I think most people know we cant go back to how it was before. Even labour said they were going to impose cuts.
For me personally it is I dont like how the tories have shared the burden between cuts and tax increases (too much on cuts), and the unbalanced cuts like ringfencing international aid applying extra cuts on welfare over other budgets. I also dont like how they carry on labour's spin coming out with false figures in public statements to help justify their policies.
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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
I think you hit it on the head peanut. Voting 'Yes' in the hope that all would go back to how it was before, whatever the consequences, is easy while admitting that it's purely for self-interest isn't so easy to articulate without sounding selfish.
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Just as a reminder of what the government is they are our elected representatives. One of their functions is to decide how best to allocate our money. When the money goes to the government it is tax payers' money, when they hand it out again it remains money from other tax payers, delivered via the government, not government money. They allocate funding, they don't directly trade goods or services for the money they receive in taxation and do not hold it long term, they hold it until it either is spent or used to pay down debt.
By your logic when you put money into your bank account it becomes the bank's money. When you put some money into your savings it becomes the account operator's.
Your last sentence is ridiculous. The law is the law whatever my opinion of it so it's a non-issue. Regardless of whether it's state money or not the law demands payment and has appropriate penalties for refusing to comply. Sounds almost like extortion doesn't it?  |
I think you chose a poor comparison
you comparing a bank account to paying taxes. So if you are right I can goto my local tax office now and withdraw any taxes I have paid right? it is my money.
I will call it state money from now on rather than government money as the government is elected to run the state.
on the extortion yeah it is
thats what it is more or less, as i said before it is enforced sharing of wealth. As people are hardly going to hand it over by themselves.