Ncc Strike

[Malcolm Robinson]

Well it is coming up to winter...........

 

http://www.northumberland.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=6270&article=3460

[threegee]

Remind me, are these the people who get 8% more than the equivalent private sector wages; have near guaranteed jobs and pensions; who's jobs had grown under Labour to a staggering 50% of our economy; and who's wages are paid by taxes on non-government employees?

 

I think they should all be made to sit through the current episode of Panorama to see how many private sector employees are struggling to even put food on the table!  Honest, decent, people who - if they work longer hours - have three quarters of their meagre extra earnings taken off them!

 

One thing is for sure: whichever party gets in at the GE there will be a huge re-balancing, and then the public sector lot really will have an issue!  There's now £44,000,000,000 of savings needed just to stop the debt getting even greater, and Balls has promised to be fiscally responsible this time around.  This spells huge job cuts, OR bringing public sector wages into line with the private sector.  Enjoy your strike NCC employees - reality is just around the corner!

[Symptoms]

Yep, the same folks.  Oh, and public sector workers also pay their taxes and NI contributions (deductions at source).  Many of the low paid in the private sector claim some benefits just to make ends meet ... I wonder why?  Perhaps the bosses who trouser obscene amounts of loot and whose companies stiff the taxman out of billions might like to consider the modest living wage proposals.  Bets are they won't as they don't give a stuff. 

[threegee]

...obscene amounts of loot and whose companies stiff the taxman out of billions might like to consider the modest living wage proposals.  Bets are they won't as they don't give a stuff. 

 

Hey, you really have been reading the UKIP manifesto!

 

UKIP will set up a Treasury Commission to design a turnover tax to ensure big businesses pay a minimum floor rate of tax as a proportion of their UK turnover.

 

Countering cross border pricing by multinationals is something neither Labour or the Tories have ever wanted to get to grips with. That's where the real mega tax loss is.  Soak the rich might be popular in loony-left circles, but there aren't that many of them; they vote with their feet; and they produce private sector jobs.  Any economist will tell you that we are presently pushing our luck at present top rate tax levels, and further increases will surely be counter-productive. In fact a slight reduction in higher tax levels would produce more revenue.  That doesn't square with the narrative of the jealousy and envy peddlers in Labour. But Balls is under no illusions, even if he allows his party to float the pretence of an intention to soak the rich. Basic dishonesty and contempt for their voter's intelligence is Labour's stock in trade.

 

Of course public sector workers pay taxes, but where does the money they use to service those taxes come from in the first instance? Only the private sector workers generate real wealth.  I'm not arguing that we don't need a public sector, and certainly not that public sector workers shouldn't be paid fairly. But having half the economy in the public sector is clearly unsustainable and the chief reason our national debt is spiralling. It's a point that is accepted by all political parties, even if they'd rather not talk about it, or detail its implications for what they will really do when in government.