Freelancers Forum Messages on Saturday February 10th 2007
Re: FN-FORUM: Fw: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 10th February 2007 19:31
On Saturday 10 Feb 2007 10:56 am, Tony Crockford wrote:
> The top rate of income tax, at 40%, is lower in Britain than in most of
> the rest of Europe. Why?
Cos we pay more NI? (As others have alre...
Re: FN-FORUM: Fw: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 10th February 2007 19:27
On Saturday 10 Feb 2007 12:18 pm, Paul Lee TBWNET wrote:
> Also back in the 1950's (I think ) French manufacturers such as Panhard
> etc were producing modest 4 door saloons (the PL17?) with 850cc en...
Re: FN-FORUM: Fw: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 10th February 2007 19:18
On Saturday 10 Feb 2007 12:26 am, ah ah wrote:
> would also be nice if we could vote whether to grant
> them MP's a pay rise or not.... unlike at present
> where they can vote themselves fat pay rise...
Re: FN-FORUM: Fw: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 10th February 2007 18:27
ohh loookk ...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1361944.ece
A million signatures against conjestion charges and
surprise the clowns in the gov decide to.....
"press ahead with prepa...
Re: FN-FORUM: Fw: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 10th February 2007 17:26
On Saturday 10 February 2007 18:05, Paul Lee TBWNET wrote:
> Ian M Robertson wrote:
> >> Yes.
> >
> > Suspect that's why we need the military, otherwise India, China, ... may
> > see Europe and North...
Re: FN-FORUM: Fw: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 10th February 2007 17:09
Ian M Robertson wrote:
>> Yes.
> Suspect that's why we need the military, otherwise India, China, ... may see
> Europe and North America cold and starving in 20 to 50 years time
>
>
On what do yo...
Re: FN-FORUM: Fw: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 10th February 2007 16:36
On Saturday 10 February 2007 17:14, Alain Williams wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 04:58:28PM -0000, Ian M Robertson wrote:
> > Yes - I've been on Income Support for nearly a year now. The DSS sent...
Re: FN-FORUM: Fw: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 10th February 2007 16:18
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 04:58:28PM -0000, Ian M Robertson wrote:
> Yes - I've been on Income Support for nearly a year now. The DSS sent me a
> ....
I am genuinely sorry to hear that ...
> Yes I...
Re: FN-FORUM: Fw: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 10th February 2007 16:02
On Saturday 10 February 2007 14:44, Alain Williams wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 01:21:46PM -0000, Anthony Cartmell wrote:
> > If we give everyone enough to live on, and tax them at 40% on any
> >...
Re: FN-FORUM: Need new modem/router
date posted 10th February 2007 15:44
Hi,
Thanks for everyone's suggestions.
Draytek looks very capable, as does Belkin.
Doesn't anyone use 3com stuff?
Simon
On 10 Feb 2007, at 01:30, Carrie wrote:
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> SimonMartin wrote:
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>> Can...
Re: FN-FORUM: Fw: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 10th February 2007 13:48
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 01:21:46PM -0000, Anthony Cartmell wrote:
> If we give everyone enough to live on, and tax them at 40% on any
> earnings, where's the incentive to work?
There is a differen...
Re: FN-FORUM: Fw: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 10th February 2007 13:33
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 02:23:50PM -0000, Gary Short wrote:
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> Anthony Cartmell wrote:
>
> >Tax is inherantly political. It's necessary for civilised society (where
> >common services are paid for...
Re: FN-FORUM: Fw: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 10th February 2007 13:27
Anthony Cartmell wrote:
> Tax is inherantly political. It's necessary for civilised society (where
> common services are paid for by "the state")
This is correct but not the full story. The stuff...
Re: FN-FORUM: Fw: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 10th February 2007 12:25
> I suspect that we would disagree why it is unfair. I don't think that
> the tax system does enough to encourage people to work for their own
> benefit; we would all be better off if it did.
> The w...
Re: FN-FORUM: Fw: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 10th February 2007 11:22
Anthony Cartmell wrote:
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>> 4. Getting back to transport, I think Mr Livingstone and Co should get
>> wise to the so called hybrid vehicles, which have fairly obscene V6
>> 3.3 litre engines (and...
Re: FN-FORUM: Need new modem/router
date posted 10th February 2007 11:07
I like Zyxel kit. You set it up using telnet. Lots of features for the
price.
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Re: FN-FORUM: Fw: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 10th February 2007 11:03
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> > The to...
Re: FN-FORUM: Fw: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 10th February 2007 11:03
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 11:21:24AM -0000, Anthony Cartmell wrote:
> Probably because the voting middle classes don't like paying more tax, and
> the influential upper classes certainly don't want t...
Re: FN-FORUM: Fw: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 10th February 2007 11:01
Yay! nationalisation without compensation of all utilities and public
services (and possibly laundrettes).
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Re: FN-FORUM: Fw: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 10th February 2007 10:55
But what about people in Northumberland, Cornwall and North Yorkshire
where it's a three mile + walk to the bus stop and the bus goes once a
day?
Before I could drive, I was unemployed a lot of the t...
Re: FN-FORUM: Fw: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 10th February 2007 10:47
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 11:05:13AM -0000, Paul Lee TBWNET wrote:
> 2. I think we should start oiking some extra cash out of the "non
> resident" millionaires into London and buying up properties, wh...
Re: FN-FORUM: Fw: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 10th February 2007 10:40
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 10:56:09AM -0000, Tony Crockford wrote:
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> Anthony Cartmell wrote:
>
> >Without taxes we'd have no NHS, rubbish collection, schools, fire
> >service, etc.
>
> for sure.
>...
Re: FN-FORUM: Fw: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 10th February 2007 10:39
Dom Latter wrote:
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>> http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax/
>
> Does anybody think that the Govt would have set up a petitions site if there
> was the slightest chance they would actually have any...
Re: FN-FORUM: Just an idea, but will it work?
date posted 10th February 2007 10:36
I have mentioned this here before but there is a screen saver starter kit
that comes with visual basic express edition 2005 that displays RSS feeds
and uses images in a directory for the background....
Re: FN-FORUM: Fw: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 10th February 2007 10:29
> 4. Getting back to transport, I think Mr Livingstone and Co should get
> wise to the so called hybrid vehicles, which have fairly obscene V6 3.3
> litre engines (and a fairly small electric moto...
Re: FN-FORUM: Fw: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 10th February 2007 10:24
> The top rate of income tax, at 40%, is lower in Britain than in most of
> the rest of Europe. Why?
Probably because the voting middle classes don't like paying more tax, and
the influential upp...
RE: FN-FORUM: Fw: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 10th February 2007 10:24
>
>for sure.
>so why don't we get more tax from those that can afford it?
>
>The top rate of income tax, at 40%, is lower in Britain than in most of
>the rest of Europe. Why?
>
>
The cynic in me thin...
Re: FN-FORUM: Fw: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 10th February 2007 10:09
ah ah wrote:
>
>
> If the gov wants people to use cars less they need to
> provide better public transport and preferablly
> decently priced and reliable would also be nice like
> japan, germany, f...
Re: FN-FORUM: Fw: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 10th February 2007 10:00
Anthony Cartmell wrote:
> Without taxes we'd have no NHS, rubbish collection, schools, fire
> service, etc.
for sure.
so why don't we get more tax from those that can afford it?
The top rate of in...
Re: FN-FORUM: Just an idea, but will it work?
date posted 10th February 2007 09:57
On 10 Feb 2007, at 1:02 am, Lists@ wrote:
> So, my sales idea is to have a businesses customers download and
> install the
> screensaver, having a direct RSS feed promoting that particular
> busi...
Re: FN-FORUM: Fw: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 10th February 2007 09:52
From: "Anthony Cartmell" [EMAIL REMOVED]
>
> > There is a way, and it's not difficult.
>
> Please tell!
Okay, off list, to those interested - and after I finish giving my Saturday
training session, s...
Re: FN-FORUM: Fw: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 10th February 2007 09:15
> Does anybody think that the Govt would have set up a petitions site if
> there
> was the slightest chance they would actually have any influence?
It was set up by the FaxYourMp web site people, w...
Re: FN-FORUM: Fw: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 10th February 2007 09:13
> publice transport investment seems to be done at with
> intension of spending the bare mininium.
Actually the spend on railways is higher than it ever has been. Most of it
now goes into the profi...
Re: FN-FORUM: Fw: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 10th February 2007 09:09
> There is a way, and it's not difficult.
Please tell!
Anthony
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Re: FN-FORUM: Fw: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 10th February 2007 09:09
> I wholeheartedly agree, but couldn't there be some usage constraints as
> well?
That's the politics bit. How much should be spend locking up more people
than any other country. Does it really k...
Re: FN-FORUM: Need new modem/router
date posted 10th February 2007 00:35
SimonMartin wrote:
>
>
> Can anyone recommend a really good integrated wireless router/modem?
>
> Has to be able to handle port forwarding *properly* and have multiple
> ethernet ports as well. Obvio...
FN-FORUM: Just an idea, but will it work?
date posted 10th February 2007 00:07
Hi there,
I have an idea which I think could be used to generate additonal sales or
some sort of marketing, principally from exisiting customers but there has
to be some sort of potential, so I was...