General Discussion
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 ...
Some might say that once a child reaches school age, then the NI contributions should stop, as their argument would be that the CB recipient could be deemed as being available to work again? If they don't work after this time, then they might argue that the CB recipient shouldn't receive the NI contribution.
This thread encouraged me to go for a wander around that neck of the woods on Sunday. What a pretty area it is with some cracking views, esp from the Old Telephone Exchange! I didn't get to see the £8m pile itself, but it was well worth the effort of walking up there. Does anyone know if there's a public footpath that goes tbrough the estate, one that might afford a view of Mamhead House?
Especially me why????? I'm all for a cracking Jubilee Week for those not at work, and have said so all along!!!! Good luck to you Huw and the rest of your RBL pals.
@wondering . you mentioned the effect on small shops. i believe that you may have forgotten that the current 6 hour restriction on sunday trading is limited to shops that are larger than 3,000 square feet. i.e. small shops already can and do open for longer on sundays, up and down the country. if it wasn't economically/socially viable for them to do so, they wouldn't. as for restricting ...
How many councillors have full time jobs?
Exactly Lynne. Good luck for tomorrows video shoot and for the presentation as a whole. Whatever the putcome, it won't be for a lack of trying.
