Comments on: Brown’s tax U-turn: new beginning or beginning of end? http://blogs.reuters.com/uknews/2008/04/24/browns-tax-u-turn-new-beginning-or-beginning-of-end/ Our UK correspondents' insights Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:51:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Helen http://blogs.reuters.com/uknews/2008/04/24/browns-tax-u-turn-new-beginning-or-beginning-of-end/#comment-2218 Helen Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:56:10 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/uknews/2008/04/24/browns-tax-u-turn-new-beginning-or-beginning-of-end/#comment-2218 Maybe its a ploy to get more and more people dependant on benefits so any party wanting to change things will find it very difficult because as Mrs Thatcher has proved...you become very unpopular if you show the tough approach which is towards lower taxes and no benefits (surely free education, health care are all the benefits anyone should need). Its funny how everyone was happy to tax the dividend on pensions until they realised they were the 'rich' people whose pensions were affected. If you protect the riches incomes you also protect poor. If you spend rich peoples money, then why not poor as well? Also the Sun is read by a wide amount of people - like Eastenders and Corination Street and it might be worth noting that unlike Cuba not everyone in this country is able to read and write to a sufficient standard good enough to read or watch anything of greater substance anyway. Maybe its a ploy to get more and more people dependant on benefits so any party wanting to change things will find it very difficult because as Mrs Thatcher has proved…you become very unpopular if you show the tough approach which is towards lower taxes and no benefits (surely free education, health care are all the benefits anyone should need). Its funny how everyone was happy to tax the dividend on pensions until they realised they were the ‘rich’ people whose pensions were affected. If you protect the riches incomes you also protect poor. If you spend rich peoples money, then why not poor as well?

Also the Sun is read by a wide amount of people - like Eastenders and Corination Street and it might be worth noting that unlike Cuba not everyone in this country is able to read and write to a sufficient standard good enough to read or watch anything of greater substance anyway.

]]> By: Lobito http://blogs.reuters.com/uknews/2008/04/24/browns-tax-u-turn-new-beginning-or-beginning-of-end/#comment-2208 Lobito Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:39:49 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/uknews/2008/04/24/browns-tax-u-turn-new-beginning-or-beginning-of-end/#comment-2208 The "influential Sun newspaper"??? What planet does the blogger live on? The Sun is in fact a comic book published in the UK that sells itself with naked ladies and football. It is in no sense a publication that can be taken seriously in reporting politics, as proved by the comment attributed to it. The “influential Sun newspaper”???

What planet does the blogger live on?

The Sun is in fact a comic book published in the UK that sells itself with naked ladies and football. It is in no sense a publication that can be taken seriously in reporting politics, as proved by the comment attributed to it.

]]> By: Mike T http://blogs.reuters.com/uknews/2008/04/24/browns-tax-u-turn-new-beginning-or-beginning-of-end/#comment-2203 Mike T Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:38:44 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/uknews/2008/04/24/browns-tax-u-turn-new-beginning-or-beginning-of-end/#comment-2203 The economy will finish him. Brown used the cash flow generated by the Thatcher reforms; easy credit and latterly a global bull market to pretend that he was the "prudent" chancellor with the golden touch. The reality is that like every Socialist chancellor before him he squandered the country's money; the cash box is empty, the balance sheet is red and the economy has been stifled by suffocating regulation and taxes. Last time round it took 15 years from 1979 to 1994 to get the country back on track. This time it will take 20 years to repair the damage. The economy will finish him. Brown used the cash flow generated by the Thatcher reforms; easy credit and latterly a global bull market to pretend that he was the “prudent” chancellor with the golden touch. The reality is that like every Socialist chancellor before him he squandered the country’s money; the cash box is empty, the balance sheet is red and the economy has been stifled by suffocating regulation and taxes. Last time round it took 15 years from 1979 to 1994 to get the country back on track. This time it will take 20 years to repair the damage.

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