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Reply | Fireworks fortnight
at 11:20 3 Nov 2024
By your logic though, we should ban it, because a few get into debt, but the majority don't.
It's the minority trying to dictate to the majority once again |
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Reply | Fireworks fortnight
at 10:02 3 Nov 2024
I think we should ban xmas, because it's too commercialized and puts many families into debt |
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Reply | Fireworks fortnight
at 10:00 3 Nov 2024
A 10 year old girl was recently killed by one of those nice animals that you think should be protected. Let's ban ppl from owning dogs. |
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Reply | All this Budget Speculation
at 23:19 2 Nov 2024
Correct, but pensions have to be paid for somehow. Don't forget govt borrowing either. Taxation doesn't raise enough by itself |
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Reply | Fireworks fortnight
at 23:13 2 Nov 2024
The public have been celebrating with fireworks and bonfires for hundreds of years, it's tradition and not just me |
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Reply | All this Budget Speculation
at 16:53 2 Nov 2024
He won't be paying NI, so in theory he's not contributing to his own pension. He's paying income tax. Others are paying for his pension. |
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Reply | Crackhead central
at 12:09 2 Nov 2024
It's about alcoholic consumption, and those countries consume more than Russians do. |
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Reply | All this Budget Speculation
at 12:08 2 Nov 2024
As I stated , your contributions have gone, they paid for the pensions of those who retired before you. You are relying on those in work to pay your pension. In effect you are getting it for nothing just like any other benefit. |
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Reply | Releasing prisoners for the army
at 11:06 2 Nov 2024
Russia's president has said members of the Wagner mercenary group were fully funded by the state.
According to Vladimir Putin, Wagner was given 86.262bn roubles ($1bn) from May 2022 to May 2023 alone for salaries and bonuses, which came from the defence ministry and state budget. |
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Reply | Fireworks fortnight
at 11:01 2 Nov 2024
There are some right miserable entitled sods on here [Post edited 2 Nov 11:01]
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Reply | All this Budget Speculation
at 08:53 2 Nov 2024
You do realise that the £1.50 tax you payed per week in 1975 is worth nothing today. NI isn't like a current account, there's not pot of money that you and others paid into over the years. That money has gone, it was used as soon as it was collected. It was used among other things to pay the pensions of those who had retired, just as those in work today are paying for your pension. This is why even those on pensions have to continue to fund the pensions schemes. You don't pay NI either. The higher the taxes working ppl pay is better for your pension
A 4.2% rise is not bad at all, it's above inflation. Do you want those at work and yourself to pay more in tax to be able to give pensioners a bigger pension rise.
Yes, i do declare all my earnings. I claim tax back on maintenance and insurance etc, but it's all above board |
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Reply | Releasing prisoners for the army
at 16:48 1 Nov 2024
It isn't, is the simple answer. The Wagner group was part of the standard Russian military although it had a large degree of autonomy.
Promised freedom if they survived. Good grief, what a choice. Are you that naive to believe that?
They have plenty of fresh volunteers coming through. Believe it or not, the vast majority of Russians support Putin and the war effort. I know you don't like to hear it, but it's the case |
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Reply | All this Budget Speculation
at 16:41 1 Nov 2024
Of course it's taxed if you combine your earnings and it goes above the threshold. That's obvious to everyone.
You have to pay your way like everyone else. Do you think you are special? Do you want things for nothing? |
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Reply | Crackhead central
at 14:18 1 Nov 2024
You are correct about demand. There will always be a demand for drugs or drink, and there will always be those who supply for profit. The more difficult to supply, the higher the prices of the product. It's why the current policies do not work. Jail a gang and another will take it's place as long as there's a profit in it. It's just like any business that way.
Legalise, regulate and control it, and take the supply out of the hands of street dealers. Less crime, less deaths and illnesses, less demand on prisons and social services. |
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Reply | All this Budget Speculation
at 14:11 1 Nov 2024
Yes they did! You have a selective memory.
Services have to be paid for. I would rather Employees cover that than those on low wages.
The budgets will never suit anyone and so they shouldn't
Reform, the working persons party that recently voted against more workers rights? |
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Reply | Fireworks fortnight
at 14:08 1 Nov 2024
Someones pets are not my problem. i'm not being dictated to by a minority |
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