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What next - windows tax again,
Which ever party gets in their think tank looks for more ways of getting more money by stealth taxes.
"Let us help keep you healthy by adding more tax on things that are unhealthy because we know the majority are not going to give them up" eg cigs, beer and now soft drinks because of sugar content.
All we hear nowadays is this or that is bad for you - let's tax it more so the people will not use so much (they must trot out a pet scientist every now and again to tell us what's bad for us)
If they had left things alone just think how much they could save on pensions if we all died earlier before reaching pension age)

sorry off topic should have put this in "the need to rant topic"

I was told by the council if you go to private renting & on benefits you will only get housing benefit on the children you have living with you.I havn't got the letter with me but if you have three children the max is £550 it goes down for 2 or 1 child.I have to find the extra £25 plus I have to pay council tax.

Shouldn't worry too much Derek. It's all under control. They'll keep everyone working until they are fit to drop and then introduce euthanasia (which if there was a referendum, I beleive would get an overall 'yes' vote, they way things stand at the moment).Bingo, they won't have to pay out anymore pensions.
or
Everyone will be stroke vicitms, resulting from stress and all will be placed in care homes. One big bedroom, called a dormitary. In that instance, they will have more properties available for compulsory purchase and the government will become the biggest property owner in the land.

Could this be the next Speilberg movie ..or a sequel to 'One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest'?
Yes, I'm pratting on folks but, we'll all go batty anyway if we don't bail out.

Glad to see lots of wiki members have joined the facebook group-some of whom are also 'friends of my wiki friends'(that is how I recognised you all)

Could you all please join

www.facebook.com/groups/555921791103090

www.facebook.com/events/472210886178901

www.facebook.com/events/521008487921255

On our main 'Anti B.T' group www.facebook.com/groups/antibedroomtax

we have had nearly 3 000 new members in January alone!!
I truly believe that word is getting out,people are incensed by the im -practicality' he un-justiveness and the cruelty.

I think that the Borgoise are waking up and realising that the Proles will no longer be spending in their Small Businesses.

(In my deprived area,Seacombe- I give the likes of Elmees, Singsburbys, Teds Ten O clock, Dawn to Dusk shops etc to fold before September 2013)

Sorry Rude, could you please explain"I think that the Borgoise are waking up and realising that the Proles will no longer be spending in their Small Businesses."
Are you not confusing two opposed classes.
I thought the bourgeois were the more prosperous/middle classes and the proles are you and me (the lower working classes.)
Are you saying that Elmees, Singsburbys, Teds Ten O clock, Dawn to Dusk are bourgeois?

Ah! Thanks for pointing out my error

campaign group 38degrees are campaigning re BT,they are asking for people to sign their petition in a open letter to David Cameron

section of open letter
Stop the 'Bedroom Tax'. Don't make the poor pay with their homes to subsidise tax breaks for the rich. If the billions lost to corporate tax dodgers and very rich individuals were collected instead of cutting tax-collectors' jobs then we could take care of the sick and vulnerable, easily!

The housing crisis is not the fault of the poor. By encouraging more house-building the goverrnment could boost employment and ease the housing shortage.

Curb rich landlords' profits on poor housing and thereby reduce the welfare bill if need be but stop punishing powerlesss people with the cynical 'Bedroom Tax'.
http://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-the-bedroom-tax-3

38 degs are some sort of general campaign group, once you intimate interest in them you are bombarded with all kinds of petitions and activist stuff, just be aware.

Hi am new here.just read through this thread,and everyone has different opinions.This is going to be a tough year for all cuts jobs,benefits etc.
The bedroom tax will resolve, 1 just gave up my 2 bedroom flat for a 1 bedroom flat.Also i own 2 pets.I work full time.Next month my hours will be cut and pay.


Good point also Bandycoot.

if you sign you can also opt out of any junk mail so they dont bother you again which i chose to do

spot on rocks, i also opt out of junk mail

http://speye.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/pensioners-hit-by-75m-bedroom-tax-this-year/

quote from article
I always though pensioners were exempt from the bedroom tax but this is apparently NOT the case. Unless the information I read has been changed since June 2012 and I can find no evidence that it has pensioners will be hit with a £75m per year bedroom tax.
In April it only needs one member of a couple to be a pensioner (in receipt of Pension or Pension Credit) to exempt the household from the bedroom tax. However under Universal Credit it needs BOTH partners to be in receipt of Pension or Pension Credit to be exempt from the bedroom tax

I read free prescriptions, bus passes and warm weather payments are goners too from 2015?!

What a lovely bunch of people we have in power NOT!

Where have you read that please?

Two ticks. As Arnie says I'll be back