Bloody tax man. Grrrr

Originally Posted by glade

It costs xxx to run a country. (including the % wasted)

Unless the governent of the day becomes more efficient they will still need to take xxx off us in tax.

Do you think that the current opposition will be any leaner?

Of course it doesn't cost a given amount of money to run a country.

There are great number of ways for a government to waste colossal sums of money if they're not careful. One of those ways is to throw money at departments without any clear view on how that money should be spent - exactly what Labour have done. The less money the government gets the more carefully it has to think about how it spends it.

[glade]

Originally Posted by Flamin_Squirrel

Of course it doesn't cost a given amount of money to run a country.

There are great number of ways for a government to waste colossal sums of money if they're not careful. One of those ways is to throw money at departments without any clear view on how that money should be spent - exactly what Labour have done. The less money the government gets the more carefully it has to think about how it spends it.

Yep I completely agree... Maybe each department needs shareholders to answer to to make sure we get value for money!

What i'm saying is that without making major changes to make the government leaner they will still have this % of waste to pay for, ergo we still have to pay the taxes. I can't see any of the other parties getting stuck into it though!

Originally Posted by Defender

What I earn I spend wisely (I have to), however, the Government mis-spends much of what comes in.

They should be more accountable and we should know what they spend it on.

Exactly, and still they think they know how to spend my money wiser than I can