One billion in the UK

[Tallyman]

This is too true to be funny (which is why I didn't put it in the "Jokes forum!!).

The next time you hear a politician use the
word 'billion' in a casual manner, think about
whether you want the 'politicians' spending
YOUR tax money.

A billion is a difficult number to comprehend,
but one advertising agency did a good job of
putting that figure into some perspective in
one of its releases.

A.
A billion seconds ago it was 1959.

B.
A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.

C.
A billion hours ago our ancestors were
living in the Stone Age.

D.
A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.

E.
A billion Pounds ago was only
13 hours and 12 minutes,
at the rate our government
is spending it.


Stamp Duty
Tobacco Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Income Tax

Council Tax

Unemployment Tax

Fishing License Tax

Petrol/Diesel Tax
Inheritance Tax
(tax on top of tax)
Alcohol Tax
V.A.T.
Marriage License Tax
Property Tax
Service charge taxes
Social Security Tax
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Workers Compensation Tax

STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?

Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago...

and our nation was one of the most prosperous in the world.

We had absolutely no national debt...

we had the largest middle class in the world...

and Mum stayed home to raise the kids.

What happened?

Can you spell ‘politicians?'

I hope this goes around the UK

at least 100 times.

What the hell happened?????

[Rich_ac_uk]

lets do something about it then....

http://www.lawfulrebellion.org/

http://www.tpuc.org/

[ronsarrox]

FECKIN GOVERNMENT W@NKERS!!

Next they will be taxing me for wiping my @rse!! Oh, wait a minute they already do have VAT on sh1t paper!!

[Sancho]

Although:

Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago...
Yes, they did.

and our nation was one of the most prosperous in the world.
It still is

We had absolutely no national debt...
Yes, we did

we had the largest middle class in the world...
And one of the most inequitable societies

and Mum stayed home to raise the kids.
Because she wasn't allowed to work or even vote.

[slobodan]

Although:

and Mum stayed home to raise the kids.
Because she wasn't allowed to work or even vote.

Wonder if we could repeal that one.
Women are at fault for everything.

[JUDWAK]

we pay tax to be a great place to live
iam ok with most taxes
the uk has cling ons tiz all
we all pay for it
tax is a few thousand years old on a whole

in the uk ower taxes have been just about the same in britain since 1798
was started
by william pitt the younger in his budget of december 1798
but if ya want to brake it down it works like this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_tax_resistance

so we been taxed since god was a young lad

they just change the name of the tax
dont mean its different tax thu dose it

[Bogus]

Although:

Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago...
Yes, they did.

and our nation was one of the most prosperous in the world.
It still is

We had absolutely no national debt...
Yes, we did

we had the largest middle class in the world...
And one of the most inequitable societies

and Mum stayed home to raise the kids.
Because she wasn't allowed to work or even vote.

Theres always somebody wants to spoil everything with the truth. Not that it matters as most people will elect to believe the junk version anyway, same as they all believe that every council house is full of unemployed immigrants with free X boxes living in the lap of luxury.

Bogus

[Albannach]

Move up here, at least of those taxes don't exist in Scotland.

[Don Logan]

Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago...
Yes, they did.

and our nation was one of the most prosperous in the world.


Cos at that time we had made rather a lot of money from slavery and the theft of natrual resources from the countries we colonised.

[Rustinho]

Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago...
Yes, they did.

and our nation was one of the most prosperous in the world.


Cos at that time we had made rather a lot of money from slavery and the theft of natrual resources from the countries we colonised.

The UK abolition of slavery act was 1833 and there was a movement towards that well before then.
"Theft" of natural resources (I don't believe the locals were using them much at the time!) still occurs today. You can't really judge fairly the standards of yesteryear by the standards of today. There is no doubt in my mind that the British Empire was a force of good at the time relative to what was around it.

[Sancho]

Seeing as we're going down this strange road, I thought this graph might be of interest. We're not in terrible shape at the moment, compared to some times in our past. What happened to all our money? Not politicians, but two world wars (and one world cup, doo-dah)

[Don Logan]

The UK abolition of slavery act was 1833 and there was a movement towards that well before then.
"Theft" of natural resources (I don't believe the locals were using them much at the time!) still occurs today. You can't really judge fairly the standards of yesteryear by the standards of today. There is no doubt in my mind that the British Empire was a force of good at the time relative to what was around it.

I know that slavery was abolished before 100 years ago, but the money made from it was clearly still floating around in various forms around at the time the OP talks about (notice that i said 'we had made rather a lot of money',. Slavery was a big contributor to the UK's wealth at the time. And i'm aware that we still take unfairly from other nations, but it's not exactly on the same scale or with the same force as in the colonial days...

[Rustinho]

I know that slavery was abolished before 100 years ago, but the money made from it was clearly still floating around in various forms around at the time the OP talks about (notice that i said 'we had made rather a lot of money',. Slavery was a big contributor to the UK's wealth at the time. And i'm aware that we still take unfairly from other nations, but it's not exactly on the same scale or with the same force as in the colonial days...

Absolutely - but there is too much of a habit for people (not yourself in anything you've posted here I hasten to add) to run down and be negative about ye olde colonial days. Of course bad things happened but overall it was a much more positive influence on the world than a negative one.