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And your story is typical of so many who were given a hand up not a hand out by the Welfare State

Part is - VAT - AND part isn't- excise

The original point related to paycheck deductions ie income tax. The top rate of income tax here is 45% for those earning over around £150k pa, not 80% for everyone as Hank's post stated

Covenanter explained that in his/ her previous post. Background: the NHS local trusts are now allowed to put out to tender for services that have hitherto been provided inhouse, on the theroretical basis at least of introducing competition and something of the free market into healthcare. NB...

How much do you think he should pay into the system from which he benefits?

It's not a worthless product: our kids' government-funded schools are actually very good. No one is 'forced' to pay privately for healthcare: if you want to pay jump the line for non-urgent treatment , sure you can, just don't whine about it.

It's your choice if you pay twice. No-one forces you to pay for private education or private healthcare. I thought you'd be all in favour of people having choice?

Why should I pay for a road I don't use? If I'm a pacifist, why should I pay for the military?

So if the person or organisation who owns the road says you can't use it anymore as it's their road not yours, you'd be totally cool with that, right?

I don't use schools as I'm an adult but I don't believe the proportion of taxes I pay for them should be refunded. Seems like a pretty silly argument to me.

Blair was never a socialist, and it was Maggie and Fatty (now Lord Skinny) Lawson who deregulated them in the 80s (The Big Bang), so hardly an issue of socialist causation!

Of their paycheck

Rubbish: the top tax rate here is 45%, which I believe is lower than it was your side of The Pond under Eisenhower, so I presume you're going to accuse that Republican President of running a Socialist Paradise in the US in the Fifties, LOL

Then why are you seemingly bent on spreading democracy round the world?

And how is this paid for?

...which just demonstrates that you dont have the foggiest idea what Marxism is.

So if a guy goes round saying he likes feeling up little girls, are you going to wait for the Courts to catch up with him or take steps to protect your daughter right now?

I'm sorry to hear that you voted for him. I find that incomprehensible that a Christian could do so. One doesn't need a criminal conviction when one has an admission of guilt by the perpetrator: heck, if a guy goes round bragging how he grabs women intimately then I'm not going to wait for the...

I agree that Corbyn's plans are not properly costed but I disagree about the cause or the financial mess we got into and also the solution to it: the financial crisis was caused by unscrupulous bankers who then demanded a bail out from the taxpayer costing £billions. There was then the myth...

So what first attracted her to the millionaire Donald Trump, I wonder?