09 Nov
I want my money back
Next time you open your pay slip and sigh at the amount of money you’ve handed over to the Tartan Taxman, have a think about who gets the benefit of your tax money. Is it you? Your family? Your neighbours? Not if you live in England it isn’t …
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Of course, the reality is much worse than even these figures suggest. Money is vacuumed out of the English wallet and spirited away by many methods. My back of envelope guesstimate is that of the taxes raised in England around £50,000,000,000 per annum is NOT spent in England. As your table indicates, the Scots get a big chunk but a vast amount leaks away via the EU Tyranny and so forth. Some of the recipients are blood boilingly repulsive and include terrorist organisations.
November 10th, 2006 at 1:36 amI want to pass this on and on…
But where are the sources? Are these govt figures? Juse where does this come from?
November 10th, 2006 at 2:18 amOriginal figures are here http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/media/375/5A/cm6811_comp.pdf
November 10th, 2006 at 4:12 amThe picture’s clickable – it points to Toque.
November 10th, 2006 at 9:33 amAh gotcha thanks… was rather pissed last night
November 10th, 2006 at 10:38 amI was going to ask for the source too, and I’m not even pissed!
November 10th, 2006 at 1:33 pm