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From: NM on 5 Dec 2009 17:51 On 5 Dec, 22:36, Peter Grange <pe...(a)plgrange.demon.co.uk> wrote: > On Sat, 5 Dec 2009 21:25:05 -0000, "mileburner" > > > > <milebur...(a)btinternet.com> wrote: > > >"The Medway Handyman" <davidl...(a)nospamblueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message > >news:kMxSm.12217$Ym4.1027(a)text.news.virginmedia.com... > >> mileburner wrote: > >>> "The Medway Handyman" <davidl...(a)nospamblueyonder.co.uk> wrote in > >>> messagenews:uUpSm.11996$Ym4.7207(a)text.news.virginmedia.com... > > >>>> You have well & truly overstepped the mark pal. > > >>> Don't you see the irony? > > >>> Someone who fiddles their own tax who complains about those who do > >>> not pay the tax they are not subjected to. > > >> Once again you acuse me of tax fraund on a public forum. > > >If you *really* think you are the only person who is "someone". > > >Here's a few questions... > > >Have you ever taken cash for a job and not declared it? > > Frought with danger that. > A true story from a few years ago:- > A friend was wanting to build an extension. A local architect who did > extensions was asked round to the house to look at what might be done. > After a discussion about what was possible, my friend and his wife > were standing in the kitchen talking to the architect chappie. "If we > were to use your services, what sort of cost would we be talking > about?" says my friend. > "Well," he says. "it's not a big job so I don't think we need to worry > about the VAT too much, if you could pay cash, (knowing wink) you're > not a tax inspector are you (ho ho)" > "No," says my friend, trying not to laugh "I'm not a tax inspector". > > His wife was though. So you are saying that she admitted she was a tax inspextor and insisted on paying the VAT or did she just shut up and let her husband handle it?
From: JNugent on 5 Dec 2009 18:04 Peter Grange wrote: > On Sat, 5 Dec 2009 08:56:21 -0800 (PST), NM <nik.morgan(a)mac.com> > wrote: > >> On 5 Dec, 13:57, SW <allbrankeepsyougo...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>> On 5 Dec, 12:22, webreader <websiterea...(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> The simple truth is that a motorist will pay more into the system that >>>> a cyclist, who is not a motorist, will pay (given the same personal >>>> circumstances) >>> The important point being that the vast majority of cyclists *are* >>> contributing towards the costs of maintaining the highways, regardless >>> of the method of taxation. >>> >>> SW >> Not in proportion to the usage they enjoy. > > Do you perchance ever eat chocolate? If so, do you pay a chocolate > tax? He does. There has been tax on sweets ever since 1962.
From: JNugent on 5 Dec 2009 18:08 MasonS(a)BP.com wrote: > Of course, cyclists pay for motorways... Even you must be cringing at having typed that.
From: JNugent on 5 Dec 2009 18:09 MasonS(a)BP.com wrote: > Not all CO2 is the same. You are one of Doug's sock puppets AICMFP.
From: JNugent on 5 Dec 2009 18:30
MasonS(a)BP.com wrote: > The entire known world oil reserves will last about 36 years at > *current* consumption levels. Around 1975, it was said that it would all run out by 1990 (with the strong implication that plebs therefore shouldn't be allowed cars or warm homes). Why are today's estimates any more reliable? |