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  1. Well they’re “giving” us money to help with the sky high cost of our fuel Bills too. Another problem that the government caused in the first place with their insane bloody green crap.

  2. I just realised that, if you are feeling a bit down that comment isn’t really helping. I’m trying to think of something to say that would cheer you up. You love your job, that’s got to be worth a lot. I gradually grew to hate my job but that did make retirement so much sweeter.

    • It doesn’t help that the examiners going on strike means that I am losing money. Fine, if they want to go without a day’s pay, but they are now forcing it on the instructors, who didn’t get a vote and don’t get a choice in the matter. Okay, I can survive, but that’s not the point. The state stealing a wedge of my income after preventing me from working for the best part of a year is just the cherry.

      As for feeling a bit down, well, having to hand over a significant sum of money to these thieves and charlatans always makes me blue.

  3. Last November I had an almost £2000 tax bill, thats after I retired/was made redundant and my company paid my tax by PAYE, or so I thought. I had to pay this by 1st December or else the tax man would commence legal action. In another life I was an ACCA accountant but I still cant work it out. I think the issue was I had statutory redundancy, plus a golden goodbye not liable for tax.

  4. Cyprus Government is years behind on tax – I’ve just had a €75 bill for 2017 Defence Tax…

    I don’t owe it but I’ll pay it as there is little chance of them listening to an appeal for that amount.

    Luckily, they did listen to my appeal against the €7,500 Income tax for the same year and have cleared it allowing me to sell my house!

  5. The government gives you other peoples’ money as if it were a gift from the government itself. And then the government takes some of your money (around half in total) and gives it to other people (who you don’t know).

    Strangely the bureaucrats and big businesses are also recipients of some of your money. That’s one hell of a ‘handling fee’ for ‘civilization’.

    • Yup, if I spend my money on myself, I’m likely to make a good decision. On my daughters, probably still a good decision. If I spend it on a stranger, well, that’s not likely to work too well.

      If government takes it from a stranger and spends it on another, chances are it goes to waste. Where I am here, in one of the poorest parts of the UK, there seem to be an awful lot of brand new 4x4s, quite a surprise given about one third claim UB in addition to those who are too poorly to work.

      Fuckers.

  6. Maybe you should focus on your collection of really cool bikes LR. I feel really lucky to be living in an age of really brilliant technology. I really love my sports watch. Music streaming and the way my phone links up with the sound system in my car and
    with my watch. My Clavinova digital piano which cost a few hundred quid off Ebay but sounds like a £120,000 Yamaha CFX concert grand. Well not quite but much better than the sound you get from a cheap acoustic upright. Reasons to be cheerful part IV.

  8. As Bastiat said, the state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.

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