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05-07-2009, 02:30 PM
Gordon Brown was engulfed in a new row over the parlous state of the country’s public finances last night amid fears he is planning a huge post-Election tax hike. The Government is looking at imposing a rise in National Insurance contributions after the next Election to help fund the cost of care for the elderly, it was claimed yesterday.
The controversial idea – to spare people from having to sell their homes to cover the cost of care bills in their old age – will be unveiled in a Government blueprint on long-term care for the elderly, reports said. The NI plan will fuel suspicions that Labour realises it will have no choice but to hike taxes after the next Election to combat soaring public debt.
But last night Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman, condemned the NI plan as ‘an income tax rise by another name’.
He urged the Prime Minister to reduce unnecessary public spending instead by cancelling the renewal of the Trident nuclear deterrent and by reducing generous public-sector pensions.
Health Secretary Andy Burnham will publish a consultation paper called Care And Support later this month, detailing how to reform social care provision. Estimates suggest that 30per cent of people who have to go into a care home have to pay their own fees.
Amazing how left wingers rioted due to Thatchers poll tax yet poll tax was actually a tax which was fair, replacing an unfair tax. Yet under this Labour government taxes and stealth taxes have been introduced, expanded and raised to the point where not only is it hurting business, its also hurting families, especially the working class which Labour and the left boast the Labour party is supposed to help. In the end, the riots weren't about the poll tax they were about hatred of Thatcher and her idea of getting of your backside and working, rather than relying on the state.
Whats more sickening is that this man who ruined our economy will retire, along with the rest of the corrupt MPs with their nice pensions, while we are left to pay for the mess this clown created with his twelve or so years in office. At least Labour and Gordon Brown will be out of office by 2010 and hopefully when the Conservatives are in office, rather than raise taxes they will cut the stupid and unsustainable levels of public spending we have at the moment.
Scotland recieve free health care for their elderly, meaning their elderly do not need to sell their homes to afford health care, despite in England, Wales and Northern Ireland people having to sell their homes to afford health care.
Do you think its fair Scotlands elderly recieve free care whilst England, Wales and Northern Ireland do not?
The controversial idea – to spare people from having to sell their homes to cover the cost of care bills in their old age – will be unveiled in a Government blueprint on long-term care for the elderly, reports said. The NI plan will fuel suspicions that Labour realises it will have no choice but to hike taxes after the next Election to combat soaring public debt.
But last night Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman, condemned the NI plan as ‘an income tax rise by another name’.
He urged the Prime Minister to reduce unnecessary public spending instead by cancelling the renewal of the Trident nuclear deterrent and by reducing generous public-sector pensions.
Health Secretary Andy Burnham will publish a consultation paper called Care And Support later this month, detailing how to reform social care provision. Estimates suggest that 30per cent of people who have to go into a care home have to pay their own fees.
Amazing how left wingers rioted due to Thatchers poll tax yet poll tax was actually a tax which was fair, replacing an unfair tax. Yet under this Labour government taxes and stealth taxes have been introduced, expanded and raised to the point where not only is it hurting business, its also hurting families, especially the working class which Labour and the left boast the Labour party is supposed to help. In the end, the riots weren't about the poll tax they were about hatred of Thatcher and her idea of getting of your backside and working, rather than relying on the state.
Whats more sickening is that this man who ruined our economy will retire, along with the rest of the corrupt MPs with their nice pensions, while we are left to pay for the mess this clown created with his twelve or so years in office. At least Labour and Gordon Brown will be out of office by 2010 and hopefully when the Conservatives are in office, rather than raise taxes they will cut the stupid and unsustainable levels of public spending we have at the moment.
Scotland recieve free health care for their elderly, meaning their elderly do not need to sell their homes to afford health care, despite in England, Wales and Northern Ireland people having to sell their homes to afford health care.
Do you think its fair Scotlands elderly recieve free care whilst England, Wales and Northern Ireland do not?