Todays Budget

[Heathblue]

Has anyone found anything in it for John and Jane Dough with 1.7 kids and who both work with medium incomes, an average mortgage, drink 5 pints a week, smoke 10 fags a day and pay TAX ?

[William Treseder]

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Has anyone found anything in it for John and Jane Dough with 1.7 kids and who both work with medium incomes, an average mortgage, drink 5 pints a week, smoke 10 fags a day and pay TAX ?

John and Jane would be better off packing in work They could blame it on stress and have a wealthier lifestyle.

[goats]

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Has anyone found anything in it for John and Jane Dough with 1.7 kids and who both work with medium incomes, an average mortgage, drink 5 pints a week, smoke 10 fags a day and pay TAX ?

They should pack in work and have more kids, live the dream….

[JamesWales]

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I found it quite boring tbh, and budgets are one of the few things for which that isn't a grave insult.

Relatively speaking there wasn't much in it. This lack of changing the tax thresholds is starting to annoy me. A year or two is fine but keeping them as they are for the best part of a decade fundamentally changes what a high earner is. It's also an easy way to put more money in lower earners pockets.

Minimum wage going is was inevitable and good for those on it of course, but I do worry we are at a point where businesses will see cutting jobs as a means to cut costs.

Agree on a few things they did re. increasing taxes on internet deliveries, online gambling, Uber etc. Personally I would have a flat 1% tax on all internet purchases to encourage in person activities.

What else was there? The budget leak beforehand was ridiculous, but the OBRs fault it seems. Kemi Badenochs budget response was ferocious, perhaps too much so.

I don't agree with the limits to ISAs, as stock investments are risky. People shouldn't feel compelled towards them. But you can still put a grand a month in a normal ISA so I'm not that concerned about people who can afford to do that.

Mixed feelings on the two child benefit limit. I'm not convinced it's a golden ticket as Universal , credit and housing benefit are greater than child benefit. Can see why it pisses off tax payers who struggle to pay for things for their own kids too.

Markets barely moved. No bad thing. Some stability is welcome I guess, but at the same time, I can't see it changing much really.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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Has anyone found anything in it for John and Jane Dough with 1.7 kids and who both work with medium incomes, an average mortgage, drink 5 pints a week, smoke 10 fags a day and pay TAX ?

Are their kids self-raising?

[JamesWales]

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Are their kids self-raising?

Touche!

I hope she doesn't have another bun in the overn

[goats]

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I found it quite boring tbh, and budgets are one of the few things for which that isn't a grave insult.

Relatively speaking there wasn't much in it. This lack of changing the tax thresholds is starting to annoy me. A year or two is fine but keeping them as they are for the best part of a decade fundamentally changes what a high earner is. It's also an easy way to put more money in lower earners pockets.

Minimum wage going is was inevitable and good for those on it of course, but I do worry we are at a point where businesses will see cutting jobs as a means to cut costs.

Agree on a few things they did re. increasing taxes on internet deliveries, online gambling, Uber etc. Personally I would have a flat 1% tax on all internet purchases to encourage in person activities.

What else was there? The budget leak beforehand was ridiculous, but the OBRs fault it seems. Kemi Badenochs budget response was ferocious, perhaps too much so.

I don't agree with the limits to ISAs, as stock investments are risky. People shouldn't feel compelled towards them. But you can still put a grand a month in a normal ISA so I'm not that concerned about people who can afford to do that.

Mixed feelings on the two child benefit limit. I'm not convinced it's a golden ticket as Universal , credit and housing benefit are greater than child benefit. Can see why it pisses off tax payers who struggle to pay for things for their own kids too.

Markets barely moved. No bad thing. Some stability is welcome I guess, but at the same time, I can't see it changing much really.

Plenty of the usual hidden stuff that most won’t notice for a while. Got to fund the mythical black hole for them to waste billions on vanity projects. Good idea to try and get the 1 million NEETS between 16-24 into doing something but you can’t just magic a course to make someone a plumber or carpenter for example.
The lefty’s are all very quiet today:hehe:

[Dave Blue]

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A few takes on the reaction:

Racists like to say letÂ’s start with looking after our ownÂ…until you do and then they say you canÂ’t do that they are skivers and scroungers.

Business owners moan about taxes and costs but obviously want their own staff to work for nothing.

People with £1m houses bleat they are hard done by. Many are inherited but they whine that their ‘hard graft’ isn’t rewarded.

They all think an ambulance will arrive at their house on time financed by the tooth fairy.

[goats]

Re: Todays Budget

A few takes on the reaction:

Racists like to say letÂ’s start with looking after our ownÂ…until you do and then they say you canÂ’t do that they are skivers and scroungers.

Business owners moan about taxes and costs but obviously want their own staff to work for nothing.

People with £1m houses bleat they are hard done by. Many are inherited but they whine that their ‘hard graft’ isn’t rewarded.

They all think an ambulance will arrive at their house on time financed by the tooth fairy.

Bla bla bla…….a budget with no plan at all, as ever. She will be gone by Christmas and I wouldn’t be surprised if the whole shambles of a party have gone by next summer

[delmbox]

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Bla bla bla…….a budget with no plan at all, as ever. She will be gone by Christmas and I wouldn’t be surprised if the whole shambles of a party have gone by next summer

how would the entire labour party be gone by next summer?

[JamesWales]

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how would the entire labour party be gone by next summer?

Have you never even seen Deep Impact?

[Dorcus]

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Are their kids self-raising?

It's home pride

[Dave Blue]

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how would the entire labour party be gone by next summer?

Don't expect an answer, they just want to sound VERY ANGRY.

[Dorcus]

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Don't expect an answer, they just want to sound VERY ANGRY.

Even if they had it all their way there's some on here who would sound VERY ANGRY just because it's a LABOUR budget.

[JamesWales]

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how would the entire labour party be gone by next summer?

Don't expect an answer, they just want to sound VERY ANGRY.

You sounded the angriest on here by some distance old chap.

For the record though, there is a very slim change of Labour not being in government next summer and remarkably slim chance of the entire party being gone