Saturday
(0)Our Glorious Leader has been setting out his vision for the future:
Tony Blair told middle Britain yesterday that it would face a series of new charges for pensions, university education and transport if Labour won a third term in power.He said new ways had to be found to pay for parts of the welfare state that had traditionally been provided free from general taxation.
Even Mr.Blair now has to admit that the fabian socialist dream of services being free at point of supply is now unsustainable and new arrangements have to be made. In future, people have are going to have the buy the services and commodities that, hitherto, they believed were going to be supplied by the 'gubbament'.
Well good. That is as it should be. Provided, of course, it is matched by a commensurate and hefty decrease in taxation. But it won't be and that is the big catch. Instead taxation levels will continue to rise in order to fund a ballooning state bureaucracy. In other words, everybody (but especially the middle classes) is going to be forced to pay twice.
The British keep voting for politics and now they are going to have to pay the bill.
"He said new ways had to be found to pay for parts of the welfare state that had traditionally been provided free from general taxation." Oh. My. God. Free? From. General. Taxation. This is just too freakin pure!
Posted by Larry at July 12, 2003 05:37 PM
I read that 7,000,000 people in the UK work for one level of government or another. I read that there is afoot a plan to add yet another, regional, level to UK government. I read that the population of the UK approaches 60,000,000.
With over 10% of the population directly and wholly dependent on the other 90% (many of whom don't work, can't work and/or receive state benefits), no wonder there's a need for more tax revenue.
Nevermind. Soon the whole termite-ridden edifice will come crashing to the ground and there can be a new beginning.
Posted by Theodopoulos Pherecydes at July 12, 2003 08:32 PM
