The Budget should take tax cuts further than millionaires

WELL here we are again, almost Budget Day March 20, doesn’t time fly? I wonder what George Osborne has in the old red briefcase for us ordinary people, those that live in the real world. Remember the five pence reduction in the millionaire’s tax announced last year – 50 pence down to 45 pence?

David Cameron and Mr Osborne spoke with eloquence and confidence that reducing this tax by five pence would bring in more tax revenue every year, throughout the years of this coalition Government.

The Prime Minister also stated that by doing this, more income tax would be collected by reducing this tax threshold than in the whole of the years the last Labour Government were in power.

If this Conservative Chancellor and our Prime Minister believe this to be so then why not reduce the tax of our petrol and diesel fuel, surely it would bring in more revenue than it does now?

More motorists would be using their vehicles a lot more, even for pleasure rather than just going to and from work. Haulage companies and small businesses would benefit too, as many owner drivers are either considering throwing in the towel or have done so already, due to the cost of fuel at the pumps.

To reduce the tax is just basic economics. The Prime Minister and Chancellor believe it to be so for our millionaires, so why not for our hard-pressed, hard-up ordinary people of the UK?

This reduction in tax could also help out the pub industries too; reduce the tax on beer, wines and spirits.

There are between 18 to 30 public houses closing every week in the UK, sadly. Many of us responsible people just cannot afford to enjoy an evening in the local pub any more, especially pensioners.

There is no need to bring in the minimum price for alcohol either, as there are other ways to deal with binge drinking using current legislation. Arrest the drunkards, hold them until Monday morning and place them before the courts on Monday.

But the authorities would say it is impractical. It certainly isn’t, if common sense is used and assistance from Theresa May at the Home Office.

Why should we, the many that drink at home because it is too expensive to drink in the local pub, suffer because of the few who binge drink every weekend? Reduce the taxes on beers, wines and spirits and get to grips with binge drinkers the old way!

But we all know what is coming – more doom and gloom and getting ripped off again!

From: Phyllis Capstick, Hellifield, Skipton.

IN this country of ours, there are the workers and there are the shirkers.

The workers work to keep the shirkers in the manner to which they have become accustomed, while they themselves often have to go without.

Workers try to save for their retirement, old age etc, shirkers have no need to do anything like that because they will get the same care etc at no cost to themselves.

Workers have paid into the system all their working lives, in order to receive their pensions, whilst the shirkers make no effort to support themselves. After all, the workers will do that for them.

Workers and shirkers.

All due to the “arrogant posh boys” in Parliament, who are all brains and no common sense, yet think they know it all.

From: Rodney Atkinson, Stocksfield, Northumberland.

ONE of the many distortions of economic decisions which drain the North of funds and people and benefit the South is the farcical situation whereby the Government subsidises companies to install solar power.

Our house in the Tyne Valley in Northumberland for instance does not interest solar power companies because it is too far North. Such a company told us: “Your property has been reviewed by our technical team and has been rejected due to geographical location.” This is apparently true of any property north of Harrogate.

So we in the North of England and Scotland (that is the great majority of the land mass of Britain) pay taxes to subsidise the solar schemes of rich southerners who live in warmer and sunnier climes. What a farce.