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

[Jamie!]

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).

If you think that is bad though, imagine what it would be like if we didn't have to pay taxes.

[Seacat]

That's what I'm saying though - to some degree I don't mind paying taxes as long as you can see them been effective. For example I begrudge paying car tax that is supposed to go towards making the transport system (roads etc) good and then sitting in traffic for hours because the lights aren't working or because some contracted construction company decide to block a whole lane of a dual carriageway off just because they can. E.g. I was going down a main road in Leeds the other day and a construction company (Laing o Roukes or something) cordened off about a mile of the road just because some main bosses were coming to inspect the work that was being carried out. And the only reason it was cordoned off? So that the bosses and other people could park their cars there.

That caused tailbacks for ages because the road is busy enough already.

If you think that is bad though, imagine what it would be like if we didn't have to pay taxes.

[GommeInc]

Taxes are working. The NHS in Essex and East London are the best NHS I have come across. Queen's Hospital in Romford, which isn't a year old yet is very well built and youn would think it was a university just by looking at it and going in the main entrance. Not to mention it is clean and well kept.

The Police Forces, Essex Air Ambulance, Fire Services are also reasonably good in Essex.

I suppose taxes have a different effect on different areas though. Dealing with congestion is impossible, unless you suggest re-routing roads through the countryside :rolleyes:

[T0M]

Taxes to and extent are necessary and a good thing, but Brown is a bit tax mad and introduces stealth taxes and new taxes which is just taking money from our pockets and into the treasury, and then wasted of idiotic ideas

Another insane tax being proposed by all parties i think is the tax on short haul flights co2 is not causing the earth to heat up and we are wasting millions on schemes to stop something we are not causing nor have any control over

[&]

Taxes are good.
The rates are bad.

Isnt it like 23p in every pound?

[GommeInc]

Taxes to and extent are necessary and a good thing, but Brown is a bit tax mad and introduces stealth taxes and new taxes which is just taking money from our pockets and into the treasury, and then wasted of idiotic ideas

Another insane tax being proposed by all parties i think is the tax on short haul flights co2 is not causing the earth to heat up and we are wasting millions on schemes to stop something we are not causing nor have any control over

I agree with your statements. It is idiotic to think we can stop global warming, which IS a part of earth's nature.

[-:Undertaker:-]

This is a stupid debate, it says 'Is it good for the countrys economy', well there would be no economy if there was no tax.

Random debate. Taxes are good, it's only daft over taxing which is bad.

Thanks to Labour.

Taxes to and extent are necessary and a good thing, but Brown is a bit tax mad and introduces stealth taxes and new taxes which is just taking money from our pockets and into the treasury, and then wasted of idiotic ideas

Another insane tax being proposed by all parties i think is the tax on short haul flights co2 is not causing the earth to heat up and we are wasting millions on schemes to stop something we are not causing nor have any control over

+REP you, like GommeInc, actually can think for yourself

[WarezKid]

Argeed with seacat.

[Nixt]

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.

If you're in full time education you shouldn't be taxed - unless it's emergency tax and a) that's never much and b) you can claim it back. Like this month I got paid around £670 and only got taxed £17.

[Mentor]

tax is generally a good thing, without it, everything from the emergany services to the nhs would be impossible.