Loony Lib Dems Go Home

[joggerjayne]

They're still bleating on about a "mansion" tax.

So you work hard all your life.

Instead of blowing your income on foreign holidays, cars, etc ... you struggle to pay the huge mortgage to buy a nice house.

Finally, it is paid off.

You retire, and have just enough to live on, but you have your lovely home.

You haven't enjoyed a high life, because everything you earned went into your home.

And now those horrid little plebs down the road want to screw you for more tax? That will teach you not to be thrifty! In your next life, just blow the lot on women and foreign holidays, then the nasty little Lib Dems will leave you alone.

Those malicious little plebs, busily enjoying the high life at their annual beano (sorry, "conference") should get out of our town right now.

And ... breathe.

Rant over.

[joggerjayne]

Absolutely, VHG x

[jno]

people have to downsize all the time. I'll do it myself if I can no longer afford my house. Somehow making the poor homeless is what they deserve; making the rich homeless is an OUTRAGE!

[joggerjayne]

//Why should people get things without earning them just because mummy and daddy are rich?//

Are you saying that parents should not be allowed to share their money with their children unless they give a chunk to everyone else?

Was I making a coffee when the Communists seized power??

[joggerjayne]

And no ... I don't have a two mill house.

[mazie]

Neither do I jj. But I do know that I worked really hard to maintain it and pay off the mortgage. I'm now retired and still live in the house but finding it a lot harder to meet all the bills.

[jno]

Are you saying that parents should not be allowed to share their money with their children unless they give a chunk to everyone else?


mmmm.... yes. I love the way the likes of Branson give their kids a good education then tell them the rest is up to them. And the Gates give gazillions to charity rather than to idle kids. That's the way to go.

[joggerjayne]

Oh. Err ... okay, fair enough.

You're not my dad are you? I'm worried now, LOL

[jno]

no need, it's jno jnr's job to worry

[joggerjayne]

Phew.

Well I've left my flat and money to a few of my friends.

Maybe I need to have a rethink and scatter it a bit more randomly.

[joggerjayne]

Triggy, was that an album or something?

[jno]

there must be deserving casino owners down your way

[joggerjayne]

LOL ... they already get enough of my money.

:0(

[joggerjayne]

Overkill ... naa na naa naaaa

[joggerjayne]

I think I've got it out of my system now.

Don't know what all the fuss was about, really.

[Old_Geezer]

I agree with your OP JJ. Taxation should be on income, not so much on ownership or spending. The more you have got out of being part of society the more you should be expected to invest back into it.

At present though, isn't the recent crackdown more to do with just using your expensive residence as a clue you may need to be checked, in case the income you've been taxed on doesn't seem to correspond with the residence you can apparently afford ? In which case it's not so oppressive.

[joggerjayne]

Fair point, OG

[AB Editor]

Afternoon JJ, I'm with you :)

[Baldric]

Ah! now we know who lives in the £2m house