GaryC wrote:Peter.
The relevance of BarryW question is obvious, if not totally misguided.
What he is really wants to say is "why do I have the right to make comments on Tax when I don't pay any myself"?
BarryW. None is the answer, as you well know.
My question. " how much benefits did you receive last year"?
I am at a loss as to "But as he is so keen on everyone paying a lot of tax it becomes a fair question to ask even if you do not expect an answer"
That's is simply not true and as such, is offensive.
I could go into blowing my own trumpet, as you often do, about my working history but I won't bore the forum with silly tit 4 tat.
I will say that I am far more proud of my work history than you could ever be and as you have never experienced anything like the work that I have done, being proud of what you do, has no meaning for me at all.
Gary - first of all to ask about benefit would be too intrusive and I certainly would not ask about that. Let us put one other thing 'to bed' I am not either suggesting in any way that you are among those I would class as a scrounger. I understand that you have genuine reasons for claiming and are active in various things. This is not and was not a dig either.
You may well pay taxes on some income for all I know - many carers do and I am in a position to know this to be a fact. So I did not know the answer when I asked it.
You claim to be offended by what I said - well get over it. We all get offended at times, me included, so what, that is life and it would be boring if it was so bland that we were never offended,....