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hoffmeister_fan
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I co-sign that list except for #5, and that comes with a caveat: I like driving if there's no traffic around me.
WBarnes
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Okay, how did the taxes amount to that much? In the UK you don't even get taxed on winnings.Taxation is theft. f#ck you if you disagree.
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Nice manners from a moderator.
So you're telling me that you enjoy paying taxes for your 2006 BMW?
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I do hope the tears don't stain your pillow as you cry yourself to sleep about it.
Am I? If I had a particular problem with taxation, what the car costs me is relatively trivial, it's barely 1% of my gross income, direct taxation on my income is more like 24%, and taxation on most of my expenditure is about 20% (some stuff is obviously zero rated, but, spirits - on which I spend quite a bit - carry duties that amount to more than taxing the Bimmer), though council tax remains the second biggest 'single item' tax I pay.
The triviality of the car from a tax point aside... why would I have a particular problem with it? If there was no taxation how would the construction of the road infrastructure be paid for? How would any national, regional or local infrastructure be paid for? The answer to that (obviously) is private enterprise, who are of course well known for providing top notch service for sensible prices, and not at all well known for doing a shit job, rampantly profiteering from basic necessities, and shipping those profits off to foreign shareholders and investors (that was sarcasm by the way).
Thanks to decades of poor governance, I don't believe we get particularly good value for the taxes we pay (for example HS2), and there's likely a lot of ill-managed expenditure of taxes (for instance within the NHS), so it's not true to say I'm happy about taxation, but it's not taxation itself that is the problem - it's how badly it's sometimes spent.
