Not done actually, NI threshold will raise by £3,000. Again, feels a little self-defeated when introducing a new earnings based tax too
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Not done actually, NI threshold will raise by £3,000. Again, feels a little self-defeated when introducing a new earnings based tax too -
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Basic Income Tax is also falling by an eye watering 1p
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This might be useful to anyone on a variable rate, the meter reading before the 1st specifically.Comment
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I'm surprised this isn't a bigger story.
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Obviously. Did people think there’s actually a shortage of anything to justify the price hikes? Everything right now is pure profiteering.Originally posted by Asura View PostComment
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In town we have 5 petrol stations in close proximity to each other. The BP and Texaco ones still haven't reduced their prices after the fuel duty cut meaning that in literally yards of each other there's as much as a 12p per litre price difference
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same around my way the price has not dropped since the duty cut announcement. like they say up like like a rocket down like a feather.
just got my quote from SP today, as of tomorrow my DD will rise from £119 p/m to £287 p/m!!! despite my electricity supposedly coming from renewables, since when did the wind and sun increase in price?Comment
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Oh, bear in mind - it's true that there's a rise in the wholesale prices. At least I think so?Originally posted by fishbowlhead View Post
But the point here is that the message the public are being given is that the poor energy companies will struggle if the prices don't got up - when in practice, it was that last year they made 50 ****-tons of money and if the prices don't go up, next year they'll make 30 ****-tons, and 30 is a smaller number than 50.Comment
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But that's capitalism you have to make more than last year or your share holders kick your arse out, it's a broken system but we keep voting in the kings of capitalismthe Torys, imagine where we would be now if Labour had got in and started running the energy company's for the country instead of for the share holders, oh that's right you don't have to imagine, Just look at what French goverment did.
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Capitalism is just fine, stocks, shares & shareholders are completely broken and need to be scrapped, it just doesn’t work.Comment
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That's not gonna happen so where currently living in a failed system, i know you run your own business I'm not against that, i just don't believe our public services should be in the hands of private firms. I'm not sure why we cant have a hybrid system a free market for goods and trade, with public services like power and transport run by the state. The country's running this model are doing a darn site better by their populaces as shown above.Originally posted by fishbowlhead View PostComment
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Stocks, shares and shareholders has a possible dependency on a population keeps increasing, so that "growth" can happen across the board.Originally posted by fishbowlhead View Post
Population growth is still increasing in the UK, but at rates significantly lower than projected even as short a while ago as 2018. People are waiting later in life to have children and having less of them. Maybe in 30 years time, the R-Rate (planet infected with humans rate!), people in vs people out will drop to less than 1. Then what? Predictions from some economists suggest inequality will rapidly increase as economic growth slows. Perhaps we are seeing these effects already.Comment
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Oh I agree, any kind of essential service, utility or health care should not be run for profit.
Unfortunately the very foundation of government needs to be completely changed in order to enact any of it, and guess who you need to vote on it in order to get it enacted? Yep, the very people that are the issue in the first place.
It will never change.Comment
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