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Posted by timbill on Friday, 02 March 2007 00:26:42

David,

I have been dissapointed to hear your comments in support of comprehensive education and progressive taxation since your leadership election.

Do you not agree that the Conservatives are all about freeing prople from the Government interference in their daily lives?

Labour and the Lib Dems will always use the education system as some great social experiment and the tax system to change our behaviour (for our own good of course). Their policies of wealth distribution have created a welfare system which is not the safety net it was intended to be, instead it has become a trap of dependancy for generations. I live in Medway, home of the Chav, and the lack of ambition and the desire to remain at the bottom of the social order is depressing. This welfare and tax system has also had the effect that the middle class family, the core Tory vote, is now saddled with the burden of paying both for those below who can't/won't contribute and for those above who have the means to avoid contributing.

There is probably some merit in both the ID cards and road pricing as policies, but again the Left wingers' controlling tendancies come through and they are turned into opportunities for surveilance and the erosion of the civil liberties of the innocent majority. Now we're talking about random stops to perform breath tests as well. People who can are leaving this country as its unique status as a free place to live has been almost completely destroyed.

Perhaps a government for the people rather than of the people can only be created when it is formed on the principle of "First do no harm".

Yours

Tim

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Posted by boybath on Friday, 02 March 2007 08:12:27

I get bit about the burden for paying for the bottom and top of the social scales but not the survellance issue.

I have many friends that work as consultants that pay a tenth of what I pay in tax yet earn up to 2 or 3 times more (by tat I mean money the ahve to dispose of.) Whilst I admire their work ethic I do think that we aught to be taxed equally as we both use the same schools, medical care etc. It seems that we legislate to such a state that common sense goes out of the windows and in both the financial areas. The society as a whole suffers since we have lawyers and accountants that specialise in following the minute technicalities of the law (or tax regulations) so they can fly in the face of what is basic common sense.

I have no issues if the police want to stop me to see if Im a Drunk Driver ....... they do it at xmas and all year long by requesting to see my documents (ps that why they never let you get out of the car since if youve been drinking they can smell it better in confined places).
I have no problems with ID cards apart from the fact they form the biggest hackers honeypot. The same civil servants that seemed to have cocked up every other goverment high tech scheme will probably cock the next one up.
And the road pricing tax well this seems to be another additional tax that wont replace another tax but just be added on top, good in therory but does it take into account if you dont live where there is great public transport.

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Posted by DaveGould on Friday, 02 March 2007 17:33:11

"I have no problems with ID cards apart from the fact they form the biggest hackers honeypot."

Does it not disturb you that some of the most vulnerable people in society, those who've already been abused will not legally be able to hide from their abusers?

Do you think that our Govt should be able to deny us international travel, the right to work, NHS treatment etc at whim?

Do you think that it's sensible to allow the Govt to have more information on it's public than the Stasi ever did?

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