What would you spend taxes on?

[spooky3 10]

If you had to spend the working (wo)man's hard earned taxes, how would you spend it?

 

Following is a short list, expand it with what you think is important enough to raise taxes for. Just remember that you ain't got enough money for everything.

 

Put N for no and Y for yes. (e.g. [N] or [Y])

 

 

[ ] More public service jobs (non NHS, Police, etc)

[ ] NHS

[ ] Police and Fire services

[ ] Pay for higher and further education

[ ] Schools

[ ] Pensioners

[ ] Libraries

[ ] Roads

[ ] Bins

[ ] Green technologies

[ ] Business subsidies

[ ] Prisons

[ ] Orphanages

[ ] Overseas aid

etc...

[ ] Tax cuts

 

 

EDIT:

 

CHOOSE THE THREE MOST IMPORTANT TO YOU!

Edited January 2, 2012 by spooky3

[*_ash_* 88]

If you had to spend the working (wo)man's hard earned taxes, how would you spend it?

 

Following is a short list, expand it with what you think is important enough to raise taxes for. Just remember that you ain't got enough money for everything.

 

Put N for no and Y for yes. (e.g. [N] or [Y])

 

 

[ ] More public service jobs (non NHS, Police, etc)

[ ] NHS

[ ] Police and Fire services

[ ] Pay for higher and further education

[ ] Schools

[ ] Pensioners

[ ] Libraries

[ ] Roads

[ ] Bins

[ ] Green technologies

[ ] Business subsidies

[ ] Prisons

[ ] Orphanages

[ ] Overseas aid

etc...

[ ] Tax cuts

I'm not sure what response you are aiming to get. Most of those are 'essential' to modern western living to some extent, or they are ambiguous terms, at the very least.

 

Tax cuts? Spend hard earned taxes on tax cuts?

Edited January 2, 2012 by *_ash_*

[HeadingNorth 11]

Tax cuts? Spend hard earned taxes on tax cuts?

 

Let's assume that he is giving us the option to say "I wouldn't spend them on anything, I'd give them back to the taxpayer."

[andyofborg 11]

i'd spend it on everything, there is plenty of money to go round

[Mecky 10]

It's not up to us to say how we spend taxes, that's up to the government. They should be held fully accountable.

[joiner andy 10]

fish and chips all round!

[HeadingNorth 11]

It's not up to us to say how we spend taxes, that's up to the government. They should be held fully accountable.

 

If the government can decide for itself who it should spend taxes, then by definition it cannot be held accountable. I don't think that's what you meant...

[spooky3 10]

It's not up to us to say how we spend taxes, that's up to the government. They should be held fully accountable.

 

Technically the government and councils are us!

 

We democratically elect them, generally based on how they say they will spend in the areas.

 

 

 

But the thread is about what you would do, not them!

[spooky3 10]

fish and chips all round!

 

Cheers!

 

[Tridentine 10]

The options are too short term sighted.

 

Don't see anywhere the option of paying down/paying off/putting something by to repay the debts left by the Gordon Brown and Co's so called government.

 

Sooner or later the UK will need to start to pay its loans off or the bailiffs will come.

 

Alternatively further loans will be refused or the interest rates demanded will be crippling.

 

Borrow money and the system then has you by the b**ls. For the individual its the local banks that have you; for the country it's just bigger banks like the IMF.

 

If you cannot manage to control your spending to give the assurance that you will repay your loans then someone else will come in and do it for you - witness Greece and Italy.

[MrSmith 10]

[n ] More public service jobs (non NHS, Police, etc)

[ y] NHS

[y ] Police and Fire services

[n ] Pay for higher and further education

[y ] Schools

[y] Pensioners

[ n] Libraries

[ y] Roads

[y ] Bins

[y ] Green technologies

[ y] Business subsidies

[ n] Prisons

[ n] Orphanages

[ n] Overseas aid

 

[ n] Tax cuts

Edited January 2, 2012 by MrSmith

[Alien52 10]

fish and chips all round!

 

Excellent.Any chance of a bottle of beer to go with them ?