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  1. Beef

    Beef Well-Known Member

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    Looks like Tax credit cuts (hopefully) are more then likely will be blocked.
     
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  2. James G

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    Good morning from Denver, Colorado. The mountains are snow capped on the horizon, the air is fresh and I'm sitting in front of a freshly lit fireplace. I'm in heaven.
     
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  3. fatletiss

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    Tomorrow, I'll hopefully be posting this:

    "Good evening from Poole (away tomorrow with the wife), the beach looks dirty, it's pissing down with rain, the air is misty and dirty, it's freezing cold and Saints have won at Anfield. Now, I really am in heaven" :)
     
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  4. PompeyLapras

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    I don't know, I can understand the argument in favour of getting rid of them.
     
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  5. Beef

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    To make poor people poorer?
     
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  6. PompeyLapras

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    The argument I've heard is because tax credits is paying people money that they've already paid into the system via tax, by cutting tax credits but raising the personal allowance for tax, people get less money but this is ofset by the fact that they pay less money in the form of tax.

    Similarly, it encourages businesses to pay a higher wage if it's not a given that low wages will be ofset by tax credits... Essentially it's shifting the responsibility of people's income from the state to the companies that people who previously earned tax credits work for.

    Those are the two arguments as I understand them, whether that would be the case in practice, I do not know... but in theory it makes sense.
     
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  7. Beef

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    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34572807
     
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  8. Saints_Alive

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  9. St. Luigi Scrosoppi

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    The bastards. What am I going to find to moan about now.
     
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  10. tomw24

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    My sister oty married today asnd im slight6 drunk.
     
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  11. tomw24

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    Just discvoerts taking contact lenses out is easier when drtunk. Tyuping is fuvciing difficult thougj.
     
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  12. Number 1 Jasper

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    How's the head?
     
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  13. tomw24

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    Fine. I hardly ever get hangovers. :1980_boogie_down:
     
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  14. Le Tissier's Laces

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    Best thing about the clocks changing? You can get up early on a Sunday and feel smug about it, without the downside of feeling tired.

    Simple pleasures y'see!
     
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    Exactly. I got up at 7 which felt like 8. :)
     
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    That's just ridiculous and unfair. You can't be mixing enough :)

    Bloody referees can't even get drunk properly <laugh><laugh>
     
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    Contact lenses? Always knew you were blind.
     
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    I liked this but am jealous
     
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    <laugh><laugh><laugh><laugh>

    Close the Internet. Qwerty has won it all.


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    I am sooooo upset I didn't see that gift horse right there. Brilliant. Well done.
     
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