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UK has performed better?
For who?
So we have to pay another £1.7 billion. Going on this governments performance it will come from the low paid and middle earners. We must make sure the wealthy, and large companies, get tax cuts. It may encourage them to actually pay some tax instead of 'avoiding' it!.
Yes, I know I am being sarcastic and painting with very broad brushstrokes, but why oh why can't we have a simple trade agreement with the EU as intended?
Weekend plans
Writing poetry and rehearsing a parodic dance routine. There may also be vegan cake involved.
Corporate welfare bill ...
Here is an interesting slant ...
'.. Add to that the corporate tax benefits, the value of the cheap credit made available to banks and other business, the insurance schemes run by the government to protect exporters, the marketing for British business laid on by Vince Cable’s ministry, the public procurement from the private sector … Farnsworth calculates that direct corporate welfare costs British taxpayers just shy of £85bn a year ..'
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/06/benefits-corporate-...
http://www.social-policy.org.uk/lincoln2012/Farnsworth%20P2.pdf