Good Use of My Taxes?

[miserableoldgit]

Heres where I live up to my username!! Just before 1.00pm on Saturday I went to my local Post Office. As I arrived a taxi pulled up outside and a young woman leapt out and rushed into the P.O. whilst the taxi waited outside. She said that she had come for her Gyro money, but she had just got up and had to rush before the P.O. closed. The guy gave her her £175 and said "Have a nice week-end" but she said that she was going back to bed, got back in the taxi, which was still waiting and shot off.

 

I know it was Saturday but I can`t imagine that she spent much time looking for work and my taxes are paying for that taxi!

 

Is it me??? Probably! Rant Over.:mad:

[bungle]

Heres where I live up to my username!! Just before 1.00pm on Saturday I went to my local Post Office. As I arrived a taxi pulled up outside and a young woman leapt out and rushed into the P.O. whilst the taxi waited outside. She said that she had come for her Gyro money, but she had just got up and had to rush before the P.O. closed. The guy gave her her £175 and said "Have a nice week-end" but she said that she was going back to bed, got back in the taxi, which was still waiting and shot off.

 

I know it was Saturday but I can`t imagine that she spent much time looking for work and my taxes are paying for that taxi!

 

Is it me??? Probably! Rant Over.:mad:

 

If that's how she chooses to waste her benefits, then what's the big deal? Personally, she should probably be spending it on food and drink and rent etc, but if she wants to spend what little she gets on pointless taxi trips then more fool her.

 

p.s. When I was on the dole, I used my £45 a week to go to the speedway.

[Master Bates]

I was out of work for 3 months and never went on the dole once, how silly of me as I ended up owing £100 in National Insurance.

[Ash]

I think that 95% of that story is made up ********, next you'll be telling the one about a Muslim lady who was being rude in a queue only for some halfwit to chirp up, racially stereotype her and offer to drive her to the airport.

A load of ****ty ********.

[miserableoldgit]

I think that 95% of that story is made up ********, next you'll be telling the one about a Muslim lady who was being rude in a queue only for some halfwit to chirp up, racially stereotype her and offer to drive her to the airport.

A load of ****ty ********.

You are quite right. I made it all up. Does that make you feel better? Oh, I also forgot to make up the bit where she was talking about her kids. I don`t obviously know where they were whilst she was in bed all day, but as I am making it up it doesn`t really matter does it?

[Thorpe-le-Saint]

I think that 95% of that story is made up ********, next you'll be telling the one about a Muslim lady who was being rude in a queue only for some halfwit to chirp up, racially stereotype her and offer to drive her to the airport.

A load of ****ty ********.

 

Didn't that actually happen once?

 

Anyway sad old git, you shouldn't complain to much (if you are actually an OAP) you get every ****ing thing for free too!!

[miserableoldgit]

Didn't that actually happen once?

 

Anyway sad old git, you shouldn't complain to much (if you are actually an OAP) you get every ****ing thing for free too!!

I am not an OAP just yet! I am still paying my taxes (God, how I am paying!) It`s just that I have worked hard all my life and find it annoying someone being supported by the State (and by definition - my taxes) can feel the need/afford to get a taxi to the PO and get it to wait to take her back to her pit.

 

I am not actually miserable although my wife thinks I am!

[Weston Super Saint]

 

Is it me??? Probably! Rant Over.:mad:

 

No, it's not just you, they're my taxes too....

[benjii]

I am thinking of moving to a tax haven when I am a bit older to stop this kind of filth from happening.

 

Seriously.

[EastleighSoulBoy]

I am not an OAP just yet! I am still paying my taxes (God, how I am paying!) It`s just that I have worked hard all my life and find it annoying someone being supported by the State (and by definition - my taxes) can feel the need/afford to get a taxi to the PO and get it to wait to take her back to her pit.

 

I am not actually miserable although my wife thinks I am!

 

Shall we start a new forum for old gits to moan on? We could call it c_urmudgeon.

 

Then again it would be easier to go on b_anter?

[Al de Man]

Shall we start a new forum for old gits to moan on?

 

Nice idea but it'll never take off.

[Pip87]

I'm now just that tiny bit more glad I got all the tax I had paid back this morning! I think I would rather not be student and therefore have the time to earn enough to pay tax though. Still, for now I shall continue to live in the tax haven that is studentland. Maybe miserableoldgit, the way to look at it is that you are very fortunate to be in a position to pay taxes rather than being in the unfortunate position of having to claim benefits - not many like having to do so.

[Weston Super Saint]

I'm now just that tiny bit more glad I got all the tax I had paid back this morning! I think I would rather not be student and therefore have the time to earn enough to pay tax though. Still, for now I shall continue to live in the tax haven that is studentland. Maybe miserableoldgit, the way to look at it is that you are very fortunate to be in a position to pay taxes rather than being in the unfortunate position of having to claim benefits - not many like having to do so.

 

For many many people claiming benefits is a career, and they really don't consider themselves unfortunate to be able to be in that position....

[Pip87]

For many many people claiming benefits is a career, and they really don't consider themselves unfortunate to be able to be in that position....

 

In which case I consider myself lucky to not be such a total c**t! Although it's horrible I would still rather be a tax payer (although I realise i'm still claiming most of it back atm), knowing that I am supporting both good and bad causes, than such a horrible person like you describe. I couldn't live like that as i have a conscience

[Crouchie's Lawyer]

Heres where I live up to my username!! Just before 1.00pm on Saturday I went to my local Post Office. As I arrived a taxi pulled up outside and a young woman leapt out and rushed into the P.O. whilst the taxi waited outside. She said that she had come for her Gyro money, but she had just got up and had to rush before the P.O. closed. The guy gave her her £175 and said "Have a nice week-end" but she said that she was going back to bed, got back in the taxi, which was still waiting and shot off.

 

I know it was Saturday but I can`t imagine that she spent much time looking for work and my taxes are paying for that taxi!

 

Is it me??? Probably! Rant Over.:mad:

 

100% behind you on this one. I frucking hate people who 'have another sprog to add to their benefits and get a bigger council house'. They see it as a pay rise, not that they are bringing yet another child into a world of underprivilidged upbringing, thus resulting in the spawn that is 'benefit leeches' increasing in population.

 

Call my views wrong, but I think you should have to have a licence to breed. A licence would only be permitted if you could prove you had the financial and social wellbeing to bring a child into the world. This would rid a hell of a lot of problems from our country. This way, 'Vicky Pollard' type benefit leeches would not be able to carry on wasting hard working tax payers money.

 

They should also put a limit on job seekers of 1 year. Provide them with the benefit along with training in courses left right and centre to give them the chances they need and if they havent found a job within the year, tough. You were obviously not trying hard enough. They will have to get a job at Maccy D's or Tesco's stacking shelves.

 

No job would ever be below me if I lost my current job. I would take whatever I could get to pay the bills and get by. A lot of the scroungers on job seekers want a £40k a year job and but have not even got the attitutude for a voluntary position! A fine example being the turds who moan about the polish getting all the jobs while claiming for their job seekers yet think working picking fruit and veg is below them!

 

Rant over

[Golden Balls]

We should just give them vouchers for food etc so they can't pis5 it up the wall

[Thorpe-le-Saint]

I am not an OAP just yet! I am still paying my taxes (God, how I am paying!) It`s just that I have worked hard all my life and find it annoying someone being supported by the State (and by definition - my taxes) can feel the need/afford to get a taxi to the PO and get it to wait to take her back to her pit.

 

I am not actually miserable although my wife thinks I am!

 

These days, it's probably cheaper to take a taxi than to buy a car, insure it, tax it and put petrol in it, so in hindsight, she was probably doing the sensible thing. I dread to think what the reaction would have been if she rolled up in a 4x4.

[miserableoldgit]

These days, it's probably cheaper to take a taxi than to buy a car, insure it, tax it and put petrol in it, so in hindsight, she was probably doing the sensible thing. I dread to think what the reaction would have been if she rolled up in a 4x4.

Walk to local PO. Public transport? :confused:

[Wiltshire Saint]

Tw*ts. Absolute bunch of tw*ts. This place is like a poor alternative comedians show. Every idiotic comment and narrow minded point of view ever held by any living being barely the next step up from a monkey is displayed on this site. There is a level of idicoy that makes you wonder why anyone would pay £5 to read the **** that is posted here. Thinly veiled and quite often blatant in it's stupidity. You people make me sick. You make me sick and yet inspire me to never set foot on this f*cking site again. A site so full of hypocrisy and bile it would confuse the most gifyed and talented in any field. F*cking idiots.

[Kadeem Hardison]

Bloody scroungers. If it isn't them, it's the gay muslim paedos or the speed camera global warming hoodies. No wonder knife crime is up. The other day I saw a single mum benefits scrounger turn up to collect her giro with a police escort. The post office not only gave her the giro, she got £75,000 cash bonus, a fancy new pair of shoes, a book token, a family size bucket of KFC AND she got to wear the policeman's hat.

[Ash]

You are quite right. I made it all up.

The don't call me the white Shaft for no reason.

Does that make you feel better?

Not especially.

as I am making it up it doesn`t really matter does it?

Not in the slightest.

[miserableoldgit]

Bloody scroungers. If it isn't them, it's the gay muslim paedos or the speed camera global warming hoodies. No wonder knife crime is up. The other day I saw a single mum benefits scrounger turn up to collect her giro with a police escort. The post office not only gave her the giro, she got £75,000 cash bonus, a fancy new pair of shoes, a book token, a family size bucket of KFC AND she got to wear the policeman's hat.

I rest my case!

[norwaysaint]

Poor people getting benefit is not where the money is being drained. That counts for millions.

Wealthy people who have accountants and are able to officially have no income are costing billions. Benefit claimers barely scratch the surface.

 

This thread is all a bit Daily Mail for me.

[Crouchie's Lawyer]

Poor people getting benefit is not where the money is being drained. That counts for millions.

Wealthy people who have accountants and are able to officially have no income are costing billions. Benefit claimers barely scratch the surface.

 

This thread is all a bit Daily Mail for me.

 

I disgree, I would say there are a hell of a lot more 'poor' people claiming benefits than wealthy people cheating the system.

 

Dont get me wrong, there are people who do it and these people are scum too, but there are a hell of a lot of 'can't be arsed to get a job' people who claim benefits and see it as their wage!

[norwaysaint]

I disgree, I would say there are a hell of a lot more 'poor' people claiming benefits than wealthy people cheating the system.

 

Dont get me wrong, there are people who do it and these people are scum too, but there are a hell of a lot of 'can't be arsed to get a job' people who claim benefits and see it as their wage!

 

You are wrong.

 

Tax cheats are far more common than you'd imagine. Each of them is able to avoid paying far more in tax than can be claimed in benefits. Seriously, we are talking millions versus billions.

 

I have neighbours who have several businesses, an enormous house a well a a holiday home and fabulous cars, yet if you check their tax details (I am that nosy) they have zero income and no personal wealth. This is so easily done that it i almost the norm for people who can afford an accountant. If you had any idea what tax bracket these people would be in, you'd understand that people claiming a few hundred quid don't even scratch the surface.

[Guest Dark Sotonic Mills]

You are wrong.

 

Tax cheats are far more common than you'd imagine. Each of them is able to avoid paying far more in tax than can be claimed in benefits. Seriously, we are talking millions versus billions.

 

I have neighbours who have several businesses, an enormous house a well a a holiday home and fabulous cars, yet if you check their tax details (I am that nosy) they have zero income and no personal wealth. This is so easily done that it i almost the norm for people who can afford an accountant. If you had any idea what tax bracket these people would be in, you'd understand that people claiming a few hundred quid don't even scratch the surface.

 

Exactly. I remember a report which said that Rupert Murdoch paid less than £100 a year in tax.

And what about the rest of the 'Black Economy'? Cash in hand and no questions asked second and third jobs. But do these people get lambasted, no "'cos they're working hard, innit". They are defrauding the country as much as and maybe more so, than benefit cheats.

[miserableoldgit]

I have no problem at all with the State (and our taxes) supporting people who genuinely need it, for whatever reason, and are suffering hardship. My original point was how much hardship is this young woman suffering if she can afford to take a taxi to get her gyro money, make it wait and then go back home in it. I was not the only person in the P.O. to comment on this.

[Crouchie's Lawyer]

You are wrong.

 

Tax cheats are far more common than you'd imagine. Each of them is able to avoid paying far more in tax than can be claimed in benefits. Seriously, we are talking millions versus billions.

 

I have neighbours who have several businesses, an enormous house a well a a holiday home and fabulous cars, yet if you check their tax details (I am that nosy) they have zero income and no personal wealth. This is so easily done that it i almost the norm for people who can afford an accountant. If you had any idea what tax bracket these people would be in, you'd understand that people claiming a few hundred quid don't even scratch the surface.

 

Sorry I misunderstood what you were saying. I thought you meant there were more people claiming benefits like job seekers and DLA who were wealthy than people claiming who were poor.

 

You meant weathly people getting accountants to write off income left right and centre to stave off having to pay taxes.

 

While I do not agree with this wholey, I think this could be viewed as a benefit of being self employed and taking that risk. Its the accountants who are bending the laws enabling this.

[benjii]

I'm now just that tiny bit more glad I got all the tax I had paid back this morning! I think I would rather not be student and therefore have the time to earn enough to pay tax though. Still, for now I shall continue to live in the tax haven that is studentland. Maybe miserableoldgit, the way to look at it is that you are very fortunate to be in a position to pay taxes rather than being in the unfortunate position of having to claim benefits - not many like having to do so.

 

Students don't get any income tax perks, they just don't typically earn anything much!

[benjii]

Tw*ts. Absolute bunch of tw*ts. This place is like a poor alternative comedians show. Every idiotic comment and narrow minded point of view ever held by any living being barely the next step up from a monkey is displayed on this site. There is a level of idicoy that makes you wonder why anyone would pay £5 to read the **** that is posted here. Thinly veiled and quite often blatant in it's stupidity. You people make me sick. You make me sick and yet inspire me to never set foot on this f*cking site again. A site so full of hypocrisy and bile it would confuse the most gifyed and talented in any field. F*cking idiots.

 

Getting a taxi is quite lazy though innit?

[Jillyanne]

Maybe her boyfriend/husband/friend is a taxi driver and it was free.

[benjii]

Maybe her boyfriend/husband/friend is a taxi driver and it was free.

 

She shouldn't be allowed to have any of the above as it just helps the rot to permeate.

[Weston Super Saint]

Tw*ts. Absolute bunch of tw*ts. This place is like a poor alternative comedians show. Every idiotic comment and narrow minded point of view ever held by any living being barely the next step up from a monkey is displayed on this site. There is a level of idicoy that makes you wonder why anyone would pay £5 to read the **** that is posted here. Thinly veiled and quite often blatant in it's stupidity. You people make me sick. You make me sick and yet inspire me to never set foot on this f*cking site again. A site so full of hypocrisy and bile it would confuse the most gifyed and talented in any field. F*cking idiots.

 

Racist : roll :

[Beckster Von Doodle]

Don't get me on the subject of the benefits system in this country. It is completely wrong.

 

Proof of this are my skanky ****ing cousins. The girl got sacked from Asda for stealing but now works at a Pub as an assistant manageress (so much for getting references for people), the mother doesn't work as she's agoraphobic and the ****** of an eldest son doesn't work either. The maximum he lasts at a job is 2 weeks and then it aggravates his bad back so he goes back on the sick for months at a time. Its funny that the bad back doesn't stop him ****ging whichever thick bint he's seeing at the time. He's got 4 kids with 3 different women and doesn't see any of them.

 

Rant over

[Weston Super Saint]

Don't get me on the subject of the benefits system in this country. It is completely wrong.

 

Proof of this are my skanky ****ing cousins. The girl got sacked from Asda for stealing but now works at a Pub as an assistant manageress (so much for getting references for people), the mother doesn't work as she's agoraphobic and the ****** of an eldest son doesn't work either. The maximum he lasts at a job is 2 weeks and then it aggravates his bad back so he goes back on the sick for months at a time. Its funny that the bad back doesn't stop him ****ging whichever thick bint he's seeing at the time. He's got 4 kids with 3 different women and doesn't see any of them.

 

Rant over

 

Maybe you should highlight just how much money they earn in benefits

[Crouchie's Lawyer]

Don't get me on the subject of the benefits system in this country. It is completely wrong.

 

Proof of this are my skanky ****ing cousins. The girl got sacked from Asda for stealing but now works at a Pub as an assistant manageress (so much for getting references for people), the mother doesn't work as she's agoraphobic and the ****** of an eldest son doesn't work either. The maximum he lasts at a job is 2 weeks and then it aggravates his bad back so he goes back on the sick for months at a time. Its funny that the bad back doesn't stop him ****ging whichever thick bint he's seeing at the time. He's got 4 kids with 3 different women and doesn't see any of them.

 

Rant over

 

This is why there should be a gun invented called the 'skankonisor'. I was thinking of takng my idea to Dragons Den. £1,000,000 or 5% of the business. The gun simply fires and eliminates skanks, chavs et al. It would fire a blank if aimed at a non-skank.

 

I would gladly be the person going around shooting the turds of soceity.

[Weston Super Saint]

Just to highlight how silly our benefits system is:

 

Last summer I had a girl who worked for me, she only did 16 hours a week - something to do with the benefits...

 

She earnt about £90 per week from her work - fair play for getting off her arse and doing something...

 

She probably spent about £150 in the pub - great for my profits!!!

 

She was a single mum with a 3 year old daughter - who might as well have lived with her grandma for all the time she spent with her.....

 

She had a two bedroom house paid for by the council.

 

She had all her bills paid for by the council.

 

She even claimed child care benefits from the council - despite her mother looking after her daughter

 

We got her to write down one day all of the benefits she recieved - how much each was worth etc - and in order for someone to work [and have tax deductions etc], they would need a job paying around £31k per annum just to have the same level of 'income' as this 21 year old girl!!

 

Do I think that's fair, do I f*ck!!!

[Jillyanne]

Just to highlight how silly our benefits system is:

 

Last summer I had a girl who worked for me, she only did 16 hours a week - something to do with the benefits...

 

She earnt about £90 per week from her work - fair play for getting off her arse and doing something...

 

She probably spent about £150 in the pub - great for my profits!!!

 

She was a single mum with a 3 year old daughter - who might as well have lived with her grandma for all the time she spent with her.....

 

She had a two bedroom house paid for by the council.

 

She had all her bills paid for by the council.

 

She even claimed child care benefits from the council - despite her mother looking after her daughter

 

We got her to write down one day all of the benefits she recieved - how much each was worth etc - and in order for someone to work [and have tax deductions etc], they would need a job paying around £31k per annum just to have the same level of 'income' as this 21 year old girl!!

 

Do I think that's fair, do I f*ck!!!

 

Are you the father of her daughter?

[Weston Super Saint]

Are you the father of her daughter?

 

No.

 

It was Ginger!!!

 

That is also another bug bear of mine, if you're happy enough to have teh secks to father a child, take financial responsibility for it's upbringing even if you don't live with it's slapper of a mother any longer.

[Michelle]

nice idea but it'll never take off.

 

:d:d

 

(FFS, sort the emoticons out guys!!!)

[Essruu]

To add to this: I've taken many off this sort to Post Offices and Cheque Cashing places in my taxi. The most retarded one was to take a big fat smelly beast of a woman from one of the Weston tower blocks over to Shirley to use a cheque cashing place, wait for her, then take her back home (via a stop for fags and some cakes!!) It was a Saturday and she said she meant to do it the previous day at the local post office but 'ran out of time' (watching Jeremy Kyle probably). So because she was so disorganized and/or lazy, she paid the cheque cashing place their fee PLUS a £25 taxi fare out of the £60-odd cheque. It's difficult to work out if these people are more lazy than stupid or more stupid than lazy.

[saint_stevo]

To add to this: I've taken many off this sort to Post Offices and Cheque Cashing places in my taxi. The most retarded one was to take a big fat smelly beast of a woman from one of the Weston tower blocks over to Shirley to use a cheque cashing place, wait for her, then take her back home (via a stop for fags and some cakes!!) It was a Saturday and she said she meant to do it the previous day at the local post office but 'ran out of time' (watching Jeremy Kyle probably). So because she was so disorganized and/or lazy, she paid the cheque cashing place their fee PLUS a £25 taxi fare out of the £60-odd cheque. It's difficult to work out if these people are more lazy than stupid or more stupid than lazy.

 

Taxi's should be free for people on the dole IMO

[thelamprey]

I disgree, I would say there are a hell of a lot more 'poor' people claiming benefits than wealthy people cheating the system.

 

Dont get me wrong, there are people who do it and these people are scum too, but there are a hell of a lot of 'can't be arsed to get a job' people who claim benefits and see it as their wage!

 

Facts dont back you up, you just happen to see the odd case that'll back up your prejudices. You're hardly likely to see the hidden rich in gated communities and offshore hideaways are you, because like it or not, you have far more in common with this dole scum than the scrounging rich. This country has been denied and drained of wealth by the rich for decade after decade, If they used the same amenities as you thenyou would see them, but they dont need to, post offices are for plebs.

 

I worked as a postie on one of if not the worst estate in the Brighton area for years and it did **** me off when I got shrieked at by those waiting for giros, or for the family surveying their kingdom from their tenement balcony. I also was charmed by the children of the estate and their manners and friendliness.

 

Our office has had a revision and now I work in a leafy mock tudor ridden area of Hove called Goldstone valley full of rude pushy sharp elbowed snobs who could be taught a thing or two about manners from those poor kids on that estate

 

Stop picking on the poor, its boring its vain and its pointing the finger at the wrong bunch of scroungers, start doing some research and see how we've been robbed by the parasitic superrich

[Saints1980]

How much do postmen get paid? I quite fancy a job outside.

[Baj]

How much do postmen get paid? I quite fancy a job outside.

 

postman, Royal Mail, £16,200

[Thedelldays]

postman, Royal Mail, £16,200

less than half of what i get now,,,sod that

[Saints1980]

postman, Royal Mail, £16,200

 

Won't be doing that then.

 

Do they only work the morning though, and go home?

 

Could get the missus to put in some overtime....

[aids victim]

Just to let you all know that I am making my last post early today, as I really need a poo. I could well be gone for about 8 minutes, as it's going to be a lot of prep work before the main event comes along.

 

I am expecting splashback and if there's enough interest I can update you tomorrow of how it went. xx

[thelamprey]

I would thoroughly not recommend being a postman. Unless you want to be bullied into working for free. Doesnt work for me but thats why they are trying to take me down the disciplinary route. They have introduced this revision across the country where you are supposed to have a five foot stride and run like a marathon runner if their chosen walking speed is used for route planning. They also have no interest in the security of the post expecting you to dump bags in shops, door ways etc totally uninsured and exposed to theivery because managers are too lazy to arrange official drop off points, approach premises etc. You'll be glued to a frame sorting for hour after hour. It was a good job once provising a public service, now all we here from management is 'business business business, most of them have no concept of business having worked there most of their lives as they cant get a job anywhere else.They have just scrapped phase three of their modernisation plan requiring us to clock in and out as it would provide transparent evidence of the real hours we work rather than the lie that we all eff off early. Those that did often would come in and work 2 hours unpaid to get out on time from 3 am in the morning. These mugs make it hard for people who turn up and do the job properly as managers will say, 'look they can do it, turning a blind eye to the scabs. Sorry for the rant but we've already had one bloke die of a heart attack on his walk this year so now you know why tensions are often so frayed in the service. Ive never been in an organisation private or public with such palpable kafkaesque evil going on. Needless to say Im trying to find the time to sort out a decent cv.

[Crouchie's Lawyer]

Facts dont back you up, you just happen to see the odd case that'll back up your prejudices. You're hardly likely to see the hidden rich in gated communities and offshore hideaways are you, because like it or not, you have far more in common with this dole scum than the scrounging rich. This country has been denied and drained of wealth by the rich for decade after decade, If they used the same amenities as you thenyou would see them, but they dont need to, post offices are for plebs.

 

I worked as a postie on one of if not the worst estate in the Brighton area for years and it did **** me off when I got shrieked at by those waiting for giros, or for the family surveying their kingdom from their tenement balcony. I also was charmed by the children of the estate and their manners and friendliness.

 

Our office has had a revision and now I work in a leafy mock tudor ridden area of Hove called Goldstone valley full of rude pushy sharp elbowed snobs who could be taught a thing or two about manners from those poor kids on that estate

 

Stop picking on the poor, its boring its vain and its pointing the finger at the wrong bunch of scroungers, start doing some research and see how we've been robbed by the parasitic superrich

 

You obviously didnt read my second part which says I thought the original post which my reply was about was citing the rich as claiming job seekers etc :roll:

 

Anyway 9:44pm shouldnt you be in bed Mr postie? No wonder our posts always bloody late!