General Discussion
Couldn't agree more monkeyboy - tried it once and would NEVER go back again, the food was so awful we threw most of it away, would rather be hungry.
As was pointed out in an earlier post, many businesses who are not VAT registered charge very similar prices to those that are, partly because it is all about supply and demand and making sure you can sell your product, but partly because a non-VAT registered business cannot claim VAT back on purchases made of its raw ingredients, stock, whatever. So overall there isn't always much difference in ...
I don't think anyone would say the unemployed are less deserving of services and it is frankly unrealistic to expect a private sector business to suddenly create jobs where there is no money available to pay people to do them. All that creates is even more burden on the state to pay out even more money - if private enterprise just works for the government in whatever guise then that is still ...
To get back to the question of VAT and how businesses pass it on etc, well it all depends on the business turnover. If a business is not VAT registered then they do not charge VAT on their prices (what the customer pays) but they also cannot reclaim VAT paid out on things the business buys. Some businesses can be flat rate registered, which is slightly different from normal and I'm not totally ...
But who would employ them and to do what? Governments cannot create real jobs in the private sector, only wealth creators can do that, which is why they are needed in the economy whether we like the idea or not.
If it stops the town centres around turning into no-go areas on too many nights of the week then it can't be a bad thing. Loads of youngters get very drunk at home on alcohol bought cheaply at supermarkets before they go out and then top it up with drinks bought at pubs and clubs. 24 hour licences helped to fuel this and they should also be banned. My elderly parents live on a route up from the ...
But Lynne people who stay at home and look after children etc can have their NI paid if they receive certain allowances (such as Child Benefit) which is why it is always recommended that the person most likely to stay at home (usually the Mum) is the person named as receiving the benefit so that they are have their NI contributions paid for them. So they don't miss out on getting full pension ...
My husband and I brought up our own children on a very low income and that was in the days before tax credits and all the extras that went with them. The only benefit we had to help us was child benefit. We had a low income partly through choice because I chose to give up working to look after our children until they were a bit older, and there were times when it was very, very hard. But that just ...
The people who earn the least got a rise in the amount of money they can earn before tax is taken, that from next year will be over £9000 per person per year, tax free. On top of that those on low incomes have that income boosted with various benefits that are paid out. This budget did not hit low paid workers, it actually helped them. No child need go to bed hungry in this country Lynne - there ...
Libby didn't say the population is decreasing burneside, what she said was that the UK is not replacing its population. The population increase has little to do with number of births from people who were themselves in turn born in the UK. Think about it in family generations - in my own family you don't have to go back many generations to see it as normal for there to be 6-8 and sometimes more ...
