26-03-2007, 07:05 AM
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| NOW who's cynical, Claire?
Remember some time back when I wrote; Quote:
They will do what they allways do, offer a 2% tax cut, and regardless of the fact that tax increases on petrol, beer, and tobacco all but wipe out the benefit, the idiot British public will, likle the dock side ladies of negotiable affection, swing their legs WIDE open and do JUST what Gordon tells them.
Whilst they are busilly working out what to spend all the 10 pound per month worth of new riches, that the Government has bought their vote with, on."
| You called me cynical.
WELL; Quote:
Gordon Brown secured his claim to the Labour crown with a surprise 2p income tax cut. (=2%!)
But the last-minute bombshell, at the very end of his final Budget speech, also triggered accusations of a tax con.
Critics said the cut will effectively be cancelled out by his other measures, including raising the ceiling for National Insurance and scrapping the 10p starter rate of income tax, and a lot of people will actually be slightly worse off.
A similarly generous-looking giveaway to business, a 2p cut in the rate of corporation tax, was undermined by the abolition of valuable reliefs and allowances for companies.
The Chancellor was setting out the battlelines for a 2009 election with the kind of tax handouts David Cameron has been reluctant to consider.
There were green moves, too, with higher road tax on gas-guzzlers .
Beer up 1p per pint, cigarettes up 11p (on 20), wine up 5p per bottle.
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