You know. I “Could” carry on with the politically bent flavour of my recent posts by going on about the Government plans to increase Council Tax….but I am simply not going to waste my breathe but…..(since I have started)….. If the Government continue down such a road, I would like a new requirement brought in that makes cost of living pay rises in the employment sector compulsory in order to fit in with any and all taxation rises. Unfortunatley the world doesn’t work like that.

Last cost of living pay rise I got last year, was the first of it’s kind in over 4 years! So, as you can imagine from a fiscal point of view I am still playing catch-up. I’d like to say “Thanks” to the government for effectivley making that catch-up harder.

After doing my sums it puts me about £30 worse off a year, but when you consider I am on my own, paying for a mortgage, utilities and everything. To me £30 is a lot of money, and for the salary I earn it shouldn’t - just goes to show what a screwed up world we live in. When someone like me get’s paid a halfway decent wage, but at the end of the day has precious little to show for it.

Bills, bills and more bills….If it’s not utilities it’s Tax, or TV Licence, or Road Fund Tax, or god knows what else might be lurking on the door mat in a brown envelope.

The only time I get to go out on the town now, is if I get a bumper pay out due to overtime, or a bonus. All this bloody ***TAX*** in our lives takes all of the drive and enjoyment out of my life and my job. I work bloody hard so that the government can cream even more out of me. Trouble is we will never get an honest explanation of just exactly where ALL this TAX revenue is going.

It makes me laugh, how some charities take pride in quoting that it takes just £1 a week to keep a village water supply going - And yet my own personal water-meter rate is still upwards of £20 a month! And they will still have the gaul to declare a drought this year, because we simply haven’t had enough rain!

Instead of sorting out all of the wasted money on Mis-management in the governement, and I cite the clear waste as part of Project Stonehenge here, 23 Million Pounds down the drain! They want more! This time it’s council tax, on the up. watch out for another attack on fuel duties with rising oil prices, and also watch out income tax!

The sad thing for me is, most of the tax I pay in my life, I won’t see any return on.

I use private dental cover now (which I believe the goverment should give me tax credits against my National Insurance for) because you simply can’t get an NHS Dentist these days!! plus I haven’t been to hospital since I was a child (over ten years) - so why should I continue paying the rate of National Insurance I do? It is completely unfair on those that don’t use the system….

Plus by the time I reach retirement age, which at this rate could be over seventy if certain parties have their way, the pension won’t exist anyway, or is at least unlikley to.

What are Tony’s Cronies going to come up with next huh?

EDIT - It would appear to me, with my limited options, the only way for me to get anything out of the system, is to give up my house, go on the streets - become a chav, lose my job; become a druggy and then rehabilitate myself through a random clinic before the government will even notice that I exist at at all, unless your a serious criminal, an ethnic minority or on the Cabinet - you may as well not exist at all…..