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There is a very different way to look at those numbers Ian....
659,000 public sector job losses, far too few. Nowhere near what is needed to bring the public sector down to a reasonable and sustainable size. We can welcome the 700,000 plus private sector jobs created over the same period though.
40,000 'rich individuals' avoiding £10.2bn tax. Avoiding, so it is legal then. In fact why single out the rich who are avoiding tax, do we all not do so? Nobody likes paying tax and no-one should have to pay more tax than they legally have to.
But then there are £billions more excess tax being paid because some many people, including pensioners and a lot of people on this forum, are paying more tax than they should be because of lack of knowledge.
100 new aggressive tax avoidance schemes..... This and above issues are only because our tax system is far too complex and we have far too high tax rates. Do what I have said all along, reform the system to low, flat and simple taxes. Complaining about people doing what they can to protect their assets and making the system more complex will never solve the problem.
£90million, cost of MP's expenses. Actually if you take a close look at it we do get our parliament on the cheap. It is not such a huge sum when you look at what is covered. That is not to excuse the few who abuse the system of course.
Oh - I missed the payday loan companies. No defending them or their rates. But someone told me that they are an alternative for some to illegal loan sharks, at least these 'legal' companies do not break people's legs... People really should learn to budget instead, easier said than done though.