The Last Ditch by Tom Paine

THE LAST DITCH

The TaxPayers’ Alliance – Better Government: Beyond the Dome: Government projects £23 billion over budget

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Link: The TaxPayers’ Alliance – Better Government: Beyond the Dome: Government projects £23 billion over budget.

Could anyone in private business survive the revelation of incompetence on this scale? I do not understand why British taxpayers take no interest in these matters. I would be interested to see this huge number translated into taxpayer working lives. How many cities full of people laboured for nothing their whole lives so that these Socialist idiots could swagger about incompetently?

Congratulations to the Taxpayers’ Alliance for its sterling work in exposing the Government’s waste. We should all join.

3 responses to “The TaxPayers’ Alliance – Better Government: Beyond the Dome: Government projects £23 billion over budget”

  1. mark Avatar
    mark

    Well it’s not that hard to calculate. Back-of-the-envelope tells me that 20,000 anaesthetists like me would have to give their career earnings to the government to pay for this. And we’re talking anaesthetists…

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    On a more positive note, one of the few govt-run projects that is on budget and on time is Terminal 5 at Heathrow. All down to one guy apparently.

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  3. Rob Avatar
    Rob

    From the Taxpayers Alliance

    Click to access totallifetimetax.pdf

    For people in the 3rd. quintile (a better measure than the average figure shown on the table as it is about people rather than money) the total paid in tax is £386,000 in a life time. The figure of £23,000,000,000 would require the total tax paid by 59,585 people.

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Tom is a retired international lawyer. He was a partner in a City of London law firm and spent almost twenty years abroad serving clients from all over the world.

Returning to London on retirement in 2011, he was dismayed to discover how much liberty had been lost in the UK while he was away.

He’s a classical liberal (libertarian, if you must) who, like his illustrious namesake, considers that

“…government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”

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