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2009-10-05 Britain

Britain must charge for health care and raise retiring age to escape debt crisis, says IMF

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Posted by Beavis 2009-10-05 09:59|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Britain DOES charge for health"care" (although it doesn't deliver). The productive are punished to reward those who do not look after their own health.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-10-05 10:26|| 2009-10-05 10:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Increasing tax will lead to more avoidance action (work less, work abroad, work differently), the one thing it won't do is raise the amount the state extorts.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-10-05 10:27|| 2009-10-05 10:27|| Front Page Top

#3 We have been duly warned. Thank you, Daniel Hannan, who opines we must heed the words of Edmund Burke, the man who best expressed the difference between the regular folk and the politicans:

"Because half a dozen grasshoppers concealed under the fern make the field ring with their importunate chink while thousands of great castles take their repose under the shade of the British oak and are silent. Pray do not imagine that those who make all the noise are the only inhabitants of the field."

http://www.theospark.net/2009/08/speech-of-year-daniel-hannan-speaks-at.html

Posted by Woozle Uneter9007 2009-10-05 13:02|| 2009-10-05 13:02|| Front Page Top

#4 That's weird - my comment just disappeared.

So I'll ask again, without the snark:

What the hell business is it of the IMF anyway? I know Britain gave up her sovereignty to the EU, but the IMF?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-10-05 13:16|| 2009-10-05 13:16|| Front Page Top

#5 IMF = bailout.

Posted by Woozle Uneter9007 2009-10-05 13:32|| 2009-10-05 13:32|| Front Page Top

#6 Britain also gives benefits to their many Muslim immigrants and their four wives, none of whom work, but breed for the Ummah. The IMF is also disproportionately represented by the US, meaning we also help bailout stupid EU policies.

Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2009-10-05 14:54|| 2009-10-05 14:54|| Front Page Top

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