TAX PAYERS, do you get a good deal?

I don't think such cuts are anything to do with the taxpayer. I mean all governments get more from the Brit taxpayer than most other countries do and yet, they seem to get by even better than us! There are welfare scroungers no doubt, but there are people in genuine need. I can't understand how it is so difficult for them to tell the difference. We pay taxes for the privelege to live in this country, and then we pay taxes for the privelege to die in this country. And yet with all this, we are still in trouble with our health service. I don't want to be a killjoy for sport lovers, but why do we need to spend such a huge amount of money on the forthcoming Olympic Games? I know it's lottery money, but in our local hospital, the money for the care in the community for post heart attack victims, has stopped. It was funded by the lottery. I'm no accountant, but I can't help getting the feeling that we are being blinded by technical stuff when it comes to fiscal stuff at government level. To me, it should me money in, and then paid out to where is was promised. If there was such commitment and integrity, maybe the world would work.

I totally agree with you there I have always wondered this to I am not going to say where I believe it is going but it certainly is not to the Tax Payer

nope, i dont get a good deal.

Tax cuts to programs that benefit welfare, the handicaped or Seniors are so that the goverment can pocket more money for the projects where the politions get kickbacks from the companies that benefit from the money that is removed from those programs that are needed. SO I agree with you greed is behind the cut backs and my taxes have never been lowered after the goverment has "cut back" and "saved" me money. The only people that benefit from those tax cuts are those who are wealthy enough to not use those cut back services and have enough money that they can afford to pay more not less taxes yet they get the tax breaks. The economy of any country is mostly based on the poor working class. The working class keep things going, pay the most taxes when you put it in comparison to their income and cost of living expenses. I keep stating let the politicians actually LIVE on minimum wage then see who gets tax breaks, what programs get cut back, and what the cost of living increases would be. It is not going to happen but it should. The President should be forced to live at least a year as should ever congressman, and senator, live a year on minimum wage, no extra health benefits other than what minimum wage workers are getting, no extra income sources, etc.

Naturlaly I have a couple of things to say about thhis. I am officially poor in America, which is to say my income is below $16,000 per year. Every week money is taken out for taxes and is used and at the end of the year I can file for a refund of some or all of it. which I get. Now i should in fairness-if indeed this is fair- beaable to say at the outset that I don't have to pay taxes and not have tht money taken out of my pay. which is so small i can barely make it work- but that's another story. I am single with no dependents and so pay the highest rate. When the money comes back to me, it has been in use by the government for a year. I do not get it back with interest. But the bills I can't pay until the refund comes charge me interest for being late. I say this with full awareness that america is a land that despises poverty, our real religion being money- and that I am call ing this contempt down on myself by this statement. Okay so the goveernment uses 17% of my income to some piddling thing and then hands it backc to me and I should be glad and be quiet.alright. the other thing is I read today that with all the welfare and medicaid cuts- infant mortality in the poorer states is on the rise. Well, that's the cost of serious military spending. We eat our young.