Comments for Deceitful Darling at http://www.adamsmith.org , comment 1 to 8 out of 8 comments http://www.adamsmith.org Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:42:14 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/transport/deceitful-darling-200805011313/#comment-136 I may be wrong but I thought new cars underwent a tax hike aswell in the recent budget. If thats so how does buying a new car - as Darling suggests - help people to avoid any tax increase? Also, I am on middle income and I could not possibly have afforded a brand new car when I bought a second hand recently. Of-course I could take out a loan but then banks are being increasingly more cautious with their lending at the moment - sthg to do with a rather minor financial crises engineered by Gordon Brown (albeit thru incompetence rather than design) while he was Chancellor. Plus I try to avoid personal loans (except for my mortage) - sthg I had always considered to be rather prudent and sensible. Obviously Alisdair thinks I should be more reckless and rack up some serious debt. Just as Labour has encouraged the entire population over the last 10 years with its constant Keynesian urges to spend, spend, spend, and mirrored also in the govt's surging public sector debt. - Not an Economist Fri, 02 May 2008 07:49:22 +0100 http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/transport/deceitful-darling-200805011313/#comment-134 A bit unfair on Alistair Darling, I feel. Gordon still decides the budget - if it was up to Darling, he would have abandoned the doubling of the 10p tax rate, because he's not entirely stupid. "As Chancellor, Gordon Brown steered clear of such dishonesty". Very droll. I almost laughed. For a minute I though you were serious. - HJ Thu, 01 May 2008 22:15:59 +0100 http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/transport/deceitful-darling-200805011313/#comment-132 I wondered why this became news yesterday. Then it dawned on me. This tax hike would have started to hit next year and then massively in spring 2010. And when is the General Election due? One can just imagine the debate in the Downing Street bunker: "OK chaps, the 10p thing was a complete f**k up, but at least it's only local elections this year. Are there any of our other hidden tax rises that nobody has spotted yet and which will start to hit the voters before the election proper? The extension of the car tax hike to old cars? Oh, f**k - that's going to take £200 out the pockets of just the people who have been hit by the 10p. Oh, s**t, better start briefing the papers and get the bad news out now." - Simon Thu, 01 May 2008 18:47:28 +0100 http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/transport/deceitful-darling-200805011313/#comment-131 I'm 6'6". Any small car causes me physical damage if I drive it regularly, indeed, I have hip problems as a result of driving too much for too many years. So now I am to be taxed for being too tall. Fantastic. - Jeremy Poynton Thu, 01 May 2008 11:42:30 +0100 http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/transport/deceitful-darling-200805011313/#comment-130 Negative equity? It's a car! - fjfjfj Thu, 01 May 2008 10:54:20 +0100 http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/transport/deceitful-darling-200805011313/#comment-129 The brazeness of this Government's stealth taxes never ceases to amaze. I suppose having got away with it more than once then they will just keep on 'trying it on'. Something about 'fooling all people and Governments'?? - Steve Giess Thu, 01 May 2008 10:26:01 +0100 http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/transport/deceitful-darling-200805011313/#comment-128 This Government, seems intent on taxing the less well off out of existance. First the removal of the 10p tax band in the face of rising mortgates, fuel and food costs and then the introduction of an inequitous stealth tax affecting the owners of older vehicles, run sureley, by those least able to do anything about replacing them. Social justice ? I don't think so !. - Chris Sambrook Thu, 01 May 2008 08:19:10 +0100 http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/transport/deceitful-darling-200805011313/#comment-127 is this not another demonstration as to how duplicitous this goverment is, ie I believe Mr Brown & Mr Blair stood on the platform in 1997 and said " watch my lips, we will not raise income tax to fund our policies" I think they have introduced 60 plus new stealth taxes instead, Brown then goes on to rob the pension funds and sell our gold reserves, nice one !. typical new labour. regards - john gooch Thu, 01 May 2008 07:52:38 +0100