Quote Originally Posted by howdydoo View Post
Thought so.

Anyway, I've found a brilliant link for you.

Dip your bread lad.

https://advisingfamilies.org/uk/info...u%20a%20refund.
That’s quite droll, howdy, but it’s also meaningless. If a few individuals choose to pay more than required to that isn’t capable of making any difference. Population wide taxes matter.

And there’s a point to taxation. I think most motorists are fed up with the state of the roads and anyone who has tried to get a GP appointment recently will be wondering (if they have any curiosity) whether GPS services are going the same way as NHS dentistry. I think the general mood on here indicates that many people quite rightly want something done about the huge backlog in the processing of asylum claims. And all those things cost money.

We can blame politicians all that we like and they have to take their share of the blame, but it’s the public who repeatedly vote for political parties who tell the lie that we can have first class public services and tax cuts.

NB. it’s customary at this point for people give their opinion about the way governments waste money. I’ve got an opinion or two on that, but I doubt whether anyone has ideas that would make any measurable difference.