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Topic : Billion £'s |
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| ange1495 |
The next time you hear a politician use the word 'billion' in a casual manner, think about whether you want the 'politicians' spending YOUR money. A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but here is that figure in some perspective: A billion seconds ago it was 1959. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive. A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age. A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet. A billion pounds ago was only 13 hours and 12 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it. Building Permit Tax Cigarette Tax Corporate Income Tax Income Tax Unemployment Tax Fishing Licence Tax Food Licence Tax Fuel Tax Petrol/Diesel Tax Hunting Licence Tax Inheritance Tax Inventory Tax (tax on top of tax) Alcohol Tax Luxury Tax Marriage Licence Tax Property Tax Real Estate Tax Service charge taxes Social Security Tax Road Usage Tax Local Tax Vehicle License Registration Tax Vehicle Sales Tax Workers Compensation Tax STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY? Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago... and our nation was one of the most prosperous in the world. We had absolutely no national debt... we had the largest middle class in the world.... and Mum stayed home to raise the kids. What happened? Can you spell 'politicians!' I hope this goes around the UK at least a Billion times. What the hell happened? |
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| jacktlad |
All politicians now think that our money is to do with as they please. If they run a project which is a miserable failure nobody takes the blame for the loss of millions. They massively overpay themselves with our money and then steal from expenses and nobody gets punished. Corruption seems the policy of all parties. |
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| localman |
also unions look at the bunch of commies in charge of the unite union talk about chickens to the slaughter can the BA workers not see through them? they are using them for there own means they also bank roll the labour party and if ths strike goes ahead more will follow and then it will cost more billions and again the normal bloke or women in the street will pay like we always do. |
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| shaggyNZ |
Well done and well said! And on top of it all you have your Value Added Tax, another tax on tax. Value for who... certainly not the taxpayer!! |
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| old_miner |
Everyone wants the government money to be spent on them. Nobody wants to pay the government any money. Could somebody explain how the system should work then? |
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| Loafer |
Stop, or certainly reduce, the government from paying for things that shouldn't be paid for. Simples! |
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| grandad |
Ange1495 Are you using our billion or the American billion? Ours is one million; million, the American one is only one thousand; million, That makes a lot of difference, don’t you think? Lies, dammed lies, and statistics comes to mind! |
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| tolpuddle |
The correct answer is to use the International Standard Prefixs £1 000 = 1k£ kilopound £1 000 000 = 1M£ megapound £1 000 000 000 = 1G£ gigapound £1 000 000 000 000 = 1T£ terapound 15 zeros it is peta 18 zeros exa 21 zeros zetta 24 zeros yotta Obviously someone is still counting the atoms in the universe as there is nothing for 27 or more zeros. There is of course the googol which has 100 zeros or even the googolplex which is 1 followed by a googol of zeros. |
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| ted |
ange feel free to join the rest of us in the 21st century. explain how u expect nhs, police and education to be paid for without taxes. if you'd like to return to victorian times im afraid you're pretty stuck |
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| jacktlad |
I don't think anybody minds paying taxes to fund the police, NHS, education etc. etc. What we object to is the corrupt manner politicions steal our money for themselves or waste it on pet projects of no value but to massage their egos. If the number of non-jobs and quangos were halted we'd be well on the way. |
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| localman |
no problem paying taxes if the benefits come back to my family and my commumity but how does a somali who has never paid a penny in tax in this country get a £700,000 house to live in and get benefits on top of that when we have old age pensioners who paid in all there lives trying to get by on next to nothing it stinks  |
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| ted |
ahhh i was waiting to see how long it would take before we had the 'foreigner living in our country on benefits' comment. well done localman, didnt take you long at all. after all, every single black/asian person lives in this country for free whilst white people abide by every single rule, pay all their taxes, have no entitlement to benefits and generally get treated like dirt. |
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| localman |
spot on Ted |
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