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Originally Posted by Mr Speirs
I still can't understand how they've not thought to reduce fuel duty to reduce and stabilise the cost of fuel to £1 a litre.
Fuel runs the entire economy, everything has become more expensive due to the cost of moving products and people. It's affecting everything from the idividual, small business to large corpoations. I understand that they don't want to be seen to encourage pollution and all that but at what cost? The entire collapse of the world economy?
If the cost of fuel was stabilsed to £1 a litre I personally think that the UK economy will be massively boosted.
I agree that we need to limit our reliance on fossil fuels but until an alternative is viable then we either spiral to doom or reduce the burden.
If you actually go through and look at how much tax there are its a wonder how we are in a crisis at all.
Income tax
Fuel Duty
VAT
Captial Gains Tax
Inheritance Tax
Council Tax
National Insurance
VED
Stamp Duty
Fuel Tax (household)
Airport Tax
Lottery Duty
Achoholic Liquor Duty
Tobacco Duty
Climate Change Levy
Hydrocarbon Oils Duty
Landfill Tax
Insurance Premium Tax
Customs Duty
plus loads more.
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When the earner of the house has to go to work in a vehicle 20 miles away, that takes away money for other things in the household, we were hoping there would be some sort of fuel cut
My father currently spends 90quid a week on fuel just to go to work.
A fella running a haulage firm was on the beeb the other week and says his fuel costings have gone up 25% since 2008, or was it 2010? Either way, he has to keep passing it onto his customers, review his truck pool, and shed some vehicles and people, just to stop the costs rising for his customers....bad, bad bad! His customers can of course go elsewhere, but everyone is paying through the nose for fuel
Pegs having to use the bike, and as a family we have to reshuffle, and shed some vehicles just so he can go work more economically.......the most economical vehicle of the lot is having to go, because the roads are so dangerously potholed and undermaintained, hes having to readdress riding a bike to work for cost and safety!!
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Originally Posted by Bibio
stop the stupid 'make the rich pay' attitude and start giving them intensives to want to stay in this god forsaken taxed to the hilt shizz hole of a country of ours.
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Its funny, folk go on about how bad the Greek economy is, which as a side note is being hidden from view right now, bail outs are hiding under the carpet with none stories, fact of the matter is its no better.... do you not think that the UK is actually not much better off, and really its like the Greeks but wrapped up with fancy ribbons and whistle on, just to make it look like its FINE?
Make us want to go flee the country and we ain't rich!