Flight taxes hiked to bail out banks

mattheman · 31 Oct 2009 at 10:40

something that most of us already knew.

Flight taxes are being raised to help bail out the banks, Alistair Darling admitted yesterday.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-environment-says-Darling.html#ixzz0VVc1k7Ju

Burnsy2023 · 31 Oct 2009 at 10:50

He said that tax rises are used to 'plug the national finances'. When are they not to do this? How did they get from that to banks? Far more has been spent on other parts of the economic policy.

What a stupid article.

Dolph · 31 Oct 2009 at 10:51

Darling in idiocy shocker? Even removing the bank bailout, Labour have created the biggest overspend and highest national debt since WW2...

deuse · 31 Oct 2009 at 11:19

Dolph said:
Darling in idiocy shocker? Even removing the bank bailout, Labour have created the biggest overspend and highest national debt since WW2...

Do you think the tory party will get get rid of this tax if they get in?
No they won't they are as bad each other.

Dolph · 31 Oct 2009 at 11:21

deuse said:
Do you think the tory party will get get rid of this tax if they get in?
No they won't they are as bad each other.

Probably not, but the Tories do have a much better track record of economic management than Labour do. You can't prevent recessions, but if you manage the economy correctly, then you can afford to mitigate their impact.

Burnsy2023 · 31 Oct 2009 at 11:21

deuse said:
Do you think the tory party will get get rid of this tax if they get in?
No they won't they are as bad each other.

Except they'll privatise BAA and BA aswell.....

Dolph said:
Probably not, but the Tories do have a much better track record of economic management than Labour do. You can't prevent recessions, but if you manage the economy correctly, then you can afford to mitigate their impact.

We both know a lot of that is due to shear luck more than actual policy.

Dolph · 31 Oct 2009 at 11:23

Burnsy2023 said:
Except they'll privatise BAA and BA aswell.....

Both BAA and BA are already privatised :confused:

We both know a lot of that is due to shear luck more than actual policy.

I'm not sure how you can say that fiscal restraint and careful investment via government spending is not actual policy...

Labour always fail because they create an entitlement, rather than a responsibility culture, and because they behave like a credit whore whenever they are in power to buy votes through bribing the electorate with their own money...

Burnsy2023 · 31 Oct 2009 at 11:23

Dolph said:
Both BAA and BA are already privatised

That was my point

Dolph · 31 Oct 2009 at 11:26

Burnsy2023 said:
That was my point

Why is that a bad thing? Government run companies have a strong tendancy to be poorly run with bad working practices (just look at Royal mail or British leyland...)

mattheman · 31 Oct 2009 at 12:34

Dolph said:
Why is that a bad thing? Government run companies have a strong tendancy to be poorly run with bad working practices (just look at Royal mail or British leyland...)

The government organisations are companies, like the home offfice is a company etc... even your local council is a company ie ltd.
what needs to be done is bring the ability to sack people in the public sector inline with private, make it more results based etc...