Well, what a weird mess we are all in now, debating the merits of taxes on pies and pints, after the government's quite ridiculous 'strategy' to raise some money. I know the UK is skint, and so is having to be careful with money, but it seems rather desperate to target hot pastries and alcohol. Worse, I believe there's a lack of honesty with this approach. A simple admission that this is a purely money-grabbing exercise would be appropriate. I am not a pie-eater, are don't frequent places that serve hot slices and similar items, so I will not really be affected by the introduction of VAT and the resultant 20% rise in prices. Apparently there is inconsistency (well there's a fucking surprise) in the current tax arrangements, and hot pies are takeaways that ought to be taxed. A cold pie is not taxable, but a hot one is, so it seems. I did wonder if this means I can take back my McDonalds chips and get a 20p refund, because they are more often than not a firefly's breath away from being cold. Whatever the merits (or more probably NOT) of taxing hot pastries, the shares have fallen in Greggs in the few days after the budget, wiping off £35million from the value of the company. Well done Mr Chancellor; what are you going to decimate next?
Alcoholic drinks chargeable by the unit? A farce, if the aim is (as alleged) to tackle binge drinking and underage drinking. George Osborne and David Cameron are prize cunts if they for one second think that upping the price of booze in this way is going to tackle the issues. Instead, everyone will be affected by the pricing, if this goes ahead, but the people who want to get drunk will still get drunk. What these government muppets are really saying is that rather than tackle the drink culture and all its consequences, the government strategy is to try and hide behind pricing as the means to sort things out. Useless cunts. Further, once we do go down this route, and have a rate per unit, it will set the scene for regular tax increases. 40p to start will become 42p in due course. Also, breaking it down to a unit price will mean bigger increases. Petrol, once upon a time, would be sold in gallons, and a two pence rise would come along. Now the two pence rise (per litre) adds 9p per gallon! Slippery slope - be warned.
So, instead of locking up drunken louts who fight, puke, and behave appallingly, and then fining them a hefty amount, we will continue to spend a fortune on police and medical input to round up the revellers, at massive taxpayer expense - and we will NOT tackle the issues. If a drunk is taken to hospital, charge him/her, as the mess was self-induced. The National Health Service should not include attention for hopeless drunkenness, period! On to the teenage drinking. Confiscate it. Lock them up. Hose them down. Do something, but DON'T, you cunting shits, charge me more for my drink! I pay income tax, NI, and tax on my alcohol already. I should not have to pay even more. Fucking sort it.
Just a thought, but the taxes on flights are a nice earner for the government, and do cuntin' fuck all to save the planet. The drink tax per unit of alcohol would simply be another way of you raiding my wallet with no benefit whatsoever to anything. Get tough on offenders, wasters, criminals, thugs and antisocial behaviour - don't sigh, and slip me a cuntin' bill !!!
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