Taxes - Good or bad? - [Closes 18/10/07]

[jesus]

Bad because they just get spent on stupid things.

[RedStratocas]

this is the stupidest debate ever. it's all about moderation. this is like asking "food - good or bad?"

[Concentric2]

Good or bad? What a stupid question :eusa_eh:

[Seacat]

I take it you don't have a job then? Every month before I even see my wage about £450 is taken off it for income tax and national insurance. Then on top of that I have car tax to pay, tax on the petrol I buy, tax on everything else I buy. Then at christmas I get a nice little bonus, but before I even see that the tax mans had half of it away.

People should stop whining, they pay a small amount and then from the rest of the countries tax's they can be put back into making a better Britain.

I think it's an absolute con. I know we have to pay taxes to keep the country running e.t.c. e.t.c. but I don't see why we should be taxed on absolutely everything. For example working overtime at work you get paid extra for doing, but by the time you've been taxed on it you're no better off anyway.

And it wouldn't be so bad if you could see your taxes been used, but when you call the police it takes them 24 hours to respond; people are waiting on hospital waiting lists so long that they decide to pay private (after paying tax to keep the NHS going) and you go out on the roads and they're all gridlocked because the transport system is rubbish. (it's just taken me one hour to travel 6 miles to my house all because a set of traffic lights aren't working).

[Concentric2]

I take it you don't have a job then?

Who is this aimed at? The question is still silly whether you think we are overtaxed or not. It would be better to say "Do you think we are overtaxed?"

[Seacat]

At Mattmeister (hence I quoted him )

Who is this aimed at? The question is still silly whether you think we are overtaxed or not. It would be better to say "Do you think we are overtaxed?"

[Concentric2]

At Mattmeister (hence I quoted him )

The positioning of the quote meant i thought only the second part of what you said was refering to him.

[Dave,]

I'm not a huge fan of taxes.

Take last month for instance. I started a new job on the 16th Aug and should have earnt £304, I got £66, 22% of my wages taken away because I was put on the wrong tax code. I should be on 522L but they put me on Basic Rate. Now I could have really done with that extra £66 this month.

Personally I believe that most people under 20 should not be taxed at all. I'm at college five days of the week and I work Thursday and Friday night and then 10 hours on Saturday and 9 on Sunday. I'm always exhausted and I really think it isn't fair that I should be charged tax if I go over £5220 a year.

Most students at Uni will get taxed as well, which is also unfair since all of their time will be taken up by Uni or Work so what little money they/we do earn I think we should keep.

Bit off topic here but people getting EMA to go to college, I think that is absolutely ridiculous, tax payers money for people to go to college. Put it back in to Uni so we don't have to pay too much.

[crans]

Theres no way a country can be successful without paying tax, or there would be no money to run the country.

This is a stupid debate.

[WarezKid]

Theres no way a country can be successful without paying tax, or there would be no money to run the country.

This is a stupid debate.

Argeed.