Angela Merkel Soon To Resign:
Posted by: Berlin Fritz on 22 November 2005
'Peace in our time' 
Posted on: 30 November 2005 by u5227470736789439
I thought you had left the country! Bloody pensions! Don't get me going on that. Another bloody rip off. I bet all the administrators got paid fine enough while my fund dropped 6K GBP in twelve months from 28K. A complete waste of money is a pension pot, unless you have so much money you don't need one. It was a confidence trick. If I had put every spare penny away for all my working life I would still be in penuary when I was too unfit to work.
Lordy, that was a bit serious. Mind I don't think being old is any excuse for not working, but only that you should be excused when the health is no longer up to it.
I probably sound more Thatcherite than Mick Parry, but actually who is going to keep all these 55 year old retired Civil Servants. Silly sods like me on five fifty (GBPs) per hour. The rule should apply to all regardless of what the situation was twenty odd years ago when the job was first taken. Times change, and no section of society should be immune from the need to accept that the tax-payer is NOT some sort miracle money grower. Frankly the state sector needs to take a long hard look at itself in this reagard!
Phew! Fredrik
Lordy, that was a bit serious. Mind I don't think being old is any excuse for not working, but only that you should be excused when the health is no longer up to it.
I probably sound more Thatcherite than Mick Parry, but actually who is going to keep all these 55 year old retired Civil Servants. Silly sods like me on five fifty (GBPs) per hour. The rule should apply to all regardless of what the situation was twenty odd years ago when the job was first taken. Times change, and no section of society should be immune from the need to accept that the tax-payer is NOT some sort miracle money grower. Frankly the state sector needs to take a long hard look at itself in this reagard!
Phew! Fredrik
Posted on: 01 December 2005 by Nime
Isn't profit on British property sales taxable? There are encouraging TV programmmes about these overnight profiteers from auction to brimming success.
It seems a bit odd that someone can make tens, or even hundreds of thousands of pounds. Completely free of risk, for so little personal effort and in so little time. Without sharing his (or her) personal good fortune?
Or are these people just selflessly improving the national housing stock?
Shouldn't the taxman have a sliding scale of taxes on profit depending on time from purchase to final sale? Every tarted up property (with extra bedrooms jammed in somewhere) just lowers the chances of some people ever getting onto the property ..er.. balloon.
Every tarted up property is several more flats too expensive for local people to rent. Forcing nurses, traineee doctors, students and essential services personnel out of town. Unless they all shack-up together.
Don't these private property developers get taxed at all on this form of "self employment"? Perhaps they do? It is never mentioned on these programmes...
It seems a bit odd that someone can make tens, or even hundreds of thousands of pounds. Completely free of risk, for so little personal effort and in so little time. Without sharing his (or her) personal good fortune?
Or are these people just selflessly improving the national housing stock?
Shouldn't the taxman have a sliding scale of taxes on profit depending on time from purchase to final sale? Every tarted up property (with extra bedrooms jammed in somewhere) just lowers the chances of some people ever getting onto the property ..er.. balloon.
Every tarted up property is several more flats too expensive for local people to rent. Forcing nurses, traineee doctors, students and essential services personnel out of town. Unless they all shack-up together.
Don't these private property developers get taxed at all on this form of "self employment"? Perhaps they do? It is never mentioned on these programmes...