in many respects all you have to do is look at history. There are loads of precedents that indicate that our feelings are justified.Ovi wrote: You are making an assumption that the system will increase tax revenues significantly, and that the government will be free to use as they like. Both assumptions may turn out to be correct, but until we do know more details it's very difficult to justify saying it's bad. Virtually every point against the charges in this thread ihas been based on assumptions of how it might be bad.
Airport duty has expanded how much after they started to use it?
Income tax thresholds have not moved up at all for years so the burden of tax has increased dramatically.
National insurance exploded under labour and what did they do with the additional money that came in? They handed it to the consultants and the general medical practitioners in pay rises that are beyond shameful.
I welcomed more tax to try and help people who were not well off.
I welcomed more national insurance payments.
I did not even begin to imagine that the government would hand it all to the consultants and GP's just look and you will see I am right. The NHS is bankrupt because the government caved in - John Ried handed these groups huge payoffs.
So there is more than enough evidence to indicate that our money has been very badly mis handled.
And I never believed I would ever say that. I work in the health care sector - my consultant colleagues are embarrassed by the money they were given and I am not joking. Ovi this is not an assumption it is a fact you cannot have this debate in a historical bubble. Just look and you will see that any more tax will be wasted. The government is now sailing very close to the wind and it knows it.
oh im funny 
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