Re: Politics (was RE: BOFHs requiring license)

[Simon Cozens]

On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 11:58:42AM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> I recall the previous government being impressively dishonest about a great
> many things.

When was the last government that was *not* impressively dishonest?
I think there might have been one around 1868, but I'm not sure.

> The previous government didn't appear to have much grasp of economics
> either.

Similar remarks apply.

> IIRC they did *not* promise to introduce PR, but to look in to it.

Ah, yes. That's like "we're listening", isn't it, in response to the
fuel crisis? We're not going to do anything, but we're happy to listen.

> Oh, and that silly Tory claim that there have been nnn 'stealth' taxes is
> easily debunked when you notice that most of them were either announced
> in previous *TORY* budgets or are the usual tax escalators which, again,
> the previous government was happy to use.  If you ignore all of those, I
> wonder how many of those 'stealth' taxes would really exist.

There are some contractors here, I understand, who might have something
to say about government policy on taxation.

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