The Last Ditch by Tom Paine

THE LAST DITCH

A line has been crossed

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Benefit payouts will exceed income tax revenue – Telegraph.

How can Britain's taxpayers fail to erupt in rage at this information? Their income taxes are not enough to cover defence, education or health any more. Every single penny ripped from their hard-earned income in tax now goes to those on state benefits!

In fact, far more than that and not only because income tax receipts fall short of benefits payments on the figures in the linked article. Don't forget those figures include money paid as "income tax" from state salaries, which is of course quite ridiculous. Those paid by the taxpayers pay their taxes from taxpayers' money. The transaction is entirely circular and pointless. They contribute no created wealth to the Treasury. Only private sector taxpayers can do that. They, poor souls, are an abused minority, relentlessly exploited by Labour and its client vote.

I don't understand why it remains safe for Labour Party members to walk the streets. What is the matter with the oppressed taxpayers of Britain? Are they cowering in fear of the parasitical majority Labour has created?

8 responses to “A line has been crossed”

  1. David Davis Avatar
    David Davis

    (1) They are too busy.
    (2) For many, “Big Brother” is on TV tonight. Much more exciting.
    (3) A significant majority can’t do simple maths any more.
    (4) This is not reported on what passes for them for “news”, which is to say one or both of the following: (a) the local newspaper ( = no-one hurt in milk float crash), and (b) BBC TV “News” ( = Michael Jackson has handed in his dinner-pail)…
    (5) It’s the evening, let’s go out, see our mates,
    (6) Most people’s taxes are taken before they even see a penny of the gross amount, they don’t understand the concept of taxation as an impost, as is intended.

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  2. Colin Campbell Avatar
    Colin Campbell

    How is this sustainable? At what point will the UK just run out of money or places to borrow from? Happy to be here in Australia.

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  3. Man in a Shed Avatar
    Man in a Shed

    The sad truth appears to be this:
    Members of the Labour party have been so used to believing the narrative that they can’t tell what reality is any more. I just can’t think of any Labour party members who have put country before party, except the late, and coincidentally very dead, Robin Cook.
    The general public know something bad has happened. But apart from quit a number of shops closing not much else seems to have changed ( job loses and factory closure don’t get the same treatment from the BBC that they do under Conservative governments ).
    People are still blaming the so called credit crunch and greedy banks – neglecting the fact that the government road the wave of personal debt for 10 years and is now trying to ride one of sovereign debt. Even if a recession hadn’t started we would still be in deep trouble and we will still be in that trouble when its over.
    Its going to get much worse before it can get better.

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  4. Man in a Shed Avatar
    Man in a Shed

    PS California looks interesting as they are about to have to deal with the consequences of their debts.

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  5. Diogenes Avatar
    Diogenes

    It causes great damage to the libertarian cause to belittle public sector employees en masse. No state employee who does a job which is of true value to the public should fear the free market.
    A policeman’s income tax may be notional but it is a proxy for the real tax he would pay as a policeman in a free economy. The same is true for Doctors, ambulancemen, teachers etc.
    Yes the public sector is a cess pit of inefficiency but work of genuine value is done.

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  6. David Davis Avatar
    David Davis

    For at least a while, a libertarian society would have to have, for example, some Policemen: and indeed probably white efficient Armed Forces: the international fury engendered by the election of such a government in one country will be horrible to behold.
    Sean Gabb and I reluctantly also admit that there will probebly have to be some State health care for some time, as the British seem rmarkably addicted to it.

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  7. jameshigham@mail.com Avatar
    jameshigham@mail.com

    Don’t forget, Tom, that a lot of those tax payers are now on the dole, courtesy of the Labour induced situation and would dearly love to be working again. When they are thrown off the dole, there is no food coming into the house and there will be a form of bourgeois revolution in this country. At the minimum, there will be severe unrest and theft.

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  8. Tom Paine Avatar
    Tom Paine

    I have not belittled them. Many do good, important work. I merely pointed out that their “taxes” do not add to the pot.

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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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