Nelson
The smoking ban was intended to make pubs, offices, eating establishments, shops, etc, etc a healthier environment for patrons and workers alike. In that redpect, the legislation was a resounding success. This proposed legislation is aimed at off-sales and will hopefully make it harder for kids, wino's and the like to kill themselves and be anti-social. In my opinion. I'm all for it.
I'm sorry Roberta, but that is not necessarily the case. Yes, barrel prices have just increased, yet again, but this shouldn't affect forecourt prices until weeks afterwards. Unfortunately too many retailers profiteer by increasing forecourt prices as soon as barrel prices increase. Yet unsurprisingly when barrel prices drop, these retailers then take weeks to drop their forecourt prices.
Just because someone has an opinion about one section of society, does not mean that you can assume that that person has the same opinion about other sections!!! What a ridiculous assumption to make! In my opinion. Do not put words into other people's mouths neilh.
But who will pay the private sector business?
@Lynne . the public sector workforce is shrinking in order to address the deficit that the present national regime as inherited from the previous. whilst this is the case, then people won't be employed to perform such duties (important as they are). i think that brazilnut has got the right idea.
@neilh . that was a well thought out response, however do not families with children receive more than just cb from state funds? i'm thinking of the additional costs from child healthcare and education as probably being the two greatest costs that child-free couples do not the burden the state with. by the way, i'm not advocating private education or healthcare!
Paul has hit the nail on the head. Community service should be unpaid work to benefit the community - cleaning beaches, dredging brooks, removing graffiti, painting seafront/viaduct railings and posts, and other constructive stuff like that.
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Not at all, I'm trying to look at it from all angles. The proposition I was alluding to was why should people who are available to get a job and therefore available to pay direct taxes like NI, have their NI paid for them, at the expense of those that dutifully pay their NI through their employee contribution? By the way, I do understand that it's an interesting subject that can cause a wide range ...
Having paid over £250,000 income tax and over £90,000 NI during the 40-year working life of the average child-free couple, I would think that said couple would expect that they've paid enough direct taxes to fund their medical treatment in their old age. Having also paid over £101,000 VAT and over £64,000 Council Tax, this average child-free couple would perhaps be entitled to say that they've ...