[lace-chat] Re: Tax Feedom Day
Today is the first day, for the average UK taxpayer, when you can keep the money you earn - every penny you've earned up to yesterday has been paid to the government as tax. You mean, for *5 full months* you've been working for the government? I knew that Brit taxes were ridiculous, but didn't know the extent... Tax Freedom Day this year is six weeks later than this year in the USA. We've had a *tax-cut*... Might not have matched the increased cost of day-to-day expenses, but I dare say it did something to improve our statistics (as above) :) And, with our dollar plunging, and the interest rates ditto, my invested "nest egg" didn't produce enough interest to *merit* taxation; a happy thought... :) Since I don't have school-aged children (who might profit from those taxes), and since I don't plan on getting sick (a national health system, *if* we had any, might have profited from taxes also); since I'm not worried about my pension fund being halved (don't qualify for Social Security; haven't worked enough)... I'm in clover, and in total sympathy with you about your outrageous taxes... :) There's a new book on Tonder lace coming out in Denmark... 4 yrs ago, it would have cost me $15. Today, it'll cost me $30. Now, *that*, really does irritate me --- Tamara P Duvall http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) Healthy US through The No-CARB Diet: no C-heney, no A-shcroft, no R-umsfeld, no B-ush. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: Tax Feedom Day
Hello all, Reading about tax freedom day I just had to look it up as I know the taxes in my old homeland are very high compared In Sweden you have to work to the end of July for taxfreedom day and the same for Denmark. Sonja Sillay [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For the average Canadian, tax freedom day comes June 28th >Heather >Abbotsford, Overcast but warm. >At 11:59 PM 30/05/2004 -0400, Tamara P. Duvall and Jean wrote: >>>Today is the first day, for the average UK taxpayer, when you can keep the >>>money you earn - every penny you've earned up to yesterday has been paid to >>>the government as tax. >>You mean, for *5 full months* you've been working for the government? I >>knew that Brit taxes were ridiculous, but didn't know the extent... To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Re: Tax Feedom Day
And it is not just income tax which has increased. Council tax has increased by more than the rate of inflation each year for the last several years. I think mine has nearly doubled in the years since I retired but of course my pension hasn't doubled in the same time :-( Many pensioners are finding it next to impossible to meet increased council taxes. We wouldn't mind quite as much if our various taxes gave us improved services in health, education, public transport, policing etc but they don't. On top of that there have been great increases in indirect taxation - petrol has been mentioned, cigarettes and alcohol have also been hit and there are more. the rationale behind petrol taxes is they will force us onto public transport but efficient, clean and safe transport systems are not in place. Without my car I couldn't attend lace classes (one hour's drive away), lace days (either half an hour or three quartes of ha hour away) and many other things. And all the indirest taxation hits those on the lowest incomes hardest. Farm labourers, for example, are poorly paid and yet must have a car as many of them live in areas with no public transportion in place. Patricia in Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Re: Tax Feedom Day
Hello all, Just thought I'd check when our tax freedom day comes. We haven't reached it yet. For the average Canadian, tax freedom day comes June 28th and according to one website I visited our family's personal day comes July 1st. Half the year working for someone one else. I do appreciate the many benefits we receive such as our medical system, but still - 6 months! Heather Abbotsford, Overcast but warm. At 11:59 PM 30/05/2004 -0400, Tamara P. Duvall and Jean wrote: Today is the first day, for the average UK taxpayer, when you can keep the money you earn - every penny you've earned up to yesterday has been paid to the government as tax. You mean, for *5 full months* you've been working for the government? I knew that Brit taxes were ridiculous, but didn't know the extent... To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Re: Tax Feedom Day
> the rationale behind petrol taxes is they will force us onto public > transport but efficient, clean and safe transport systems are not in place. Same here. I miss Polish busses and trains *so much*!! The bus stops not only tell you which buses stop there and when, they even tell you the whole route of each of those busses, and many even have a map with all bus routes in the city marked on it! Here bus stops tell you *nothing* and are really hard to see besides. It took me 5 hours to get from downtown LA to Pasadena once! Weronika To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
