Man in a Shed: Surrey CC

Saturday, October 06, 2007

The dishonesty of New Labour laid bare

Here we go again. Gordon, who thinks your bank account is really his election fund, is apparently going to shift the burden of his next vast wasting of your cash on unreformed public services by getting the money via Council tax - as today's Telegraph reports. Up to £200 over the next few years. He lacks the honesty of raising income tax - he must have been sleeping though any of his father's sermons on honesty.

The DT quotes the leader of Surrey CC as saying:

Nick Skellett, the leader of Surrey county council said: "It is an appalling and dishonest strategy to keep income tax at fixed levels and raise huge sums through council tax."

Of course Gordon will chuckle that it will be Conservative and Lib Dem councils that will get the blame for what he has done.

Council tax is now at levels that can't be sustained and is in effect becoming a form of wealth tax. If you have something - Gordon wants it. Just saying you paid for it, and where highly taxed on those earnings, is no justification to shameless sly socialists like Gordon Brown.

Its immoral,
its deceitful,
its vindictive,
its Gordon Brown and New Labour.

The pound in your pocket

"We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting government spending. I tell you in all candour that that option no longer exists." James Callaghan

“The trouble with theoretical economists is that they don't understand that when you have a deficit, you can only finance it by borrowing, and you've got to persuade people that it's worth lending money to you and that they'll get their money back... there's no way of escaping it.” Dennis Healey during the 1976 Stirling Crisis.

"Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens ... Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of over-turning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose." John Maynard Keynes, 1920.

"To preserve [the people's] independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our selection between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude." Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States of America,1801-1809.

Inflation is taxation without legislation .. Milton Friedman