<p>My bad, the poll tax has been replaced with another tax known as the council tax:</p>
<p>As of 2006, the average annual levy on a property in England was £1,056.[2]</p>
<p>Sorry folks no IRS deduction</p>
<p>Here is the avg salary for UK:
The results of the 2007 Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) show that median weekly pay for full-time employees in the UK grew by 2.9 per cent in the year to April 2007 to reach £457. Median earnings of full-time male employees was £498 per week in April 2007; for women the median was £394.
(conversion would be @ 850 per week in US dollars…ouch)</p>
<p>That means b4 the VAT, TV, license tax, window tax you would have to work 3 weeks just to pay the council tax…don’t jump on me remember everything you buy at the grocery store is 15%, everyday, every week</p>
In part, yes. Clinton relied on Treasury Secretary Bob Rubin’s advice to adopt a strong dollar policy. The effect of a strong dollar is that foreign countries and companies can buy the dollar and make money as it appreciates. And after they buy dollars, what do they do with them while they are waiting for the dollar to appreciate? They invest their funds. When you have many countries and foreign companies doing this and the emergency of a new technology industry, you get an over priced stock market. Alan Greenspan fixed that pretty good by raising short term interest rates to 6.5 percent with no inflation in sight. The result was a crash.</p>
<p>If you are going to give Clinton credit for the good economic times in the 90s, you also have to blame him for the mess of an economy and stock market he left the next President.</p>
<p>Obama realy knows how to campaign. I was in line to get on Kerry/Edwards Bus to campaign in Wisconsin in 2004. We were getting loaded on a yellow school bus, no bathroom,no air, no heat, and hard seats. Barack was running for Illinois Senator, his bus pulled up to load volunteers on a bus with Full Air equiped, bathrooms, cushy seats and snacks. Dang they were just going downstate, we were going to Wisconsin!
Barack knows how to organize and he can go all the way. My “hope” is that America will come to understand the difference between Africans and African/American. I can dream…</p>
<p>Hillary will never go anywhere unless she comes forth and apologizes for her husband overtaxing the American people into a budget surplus, then leaving it to someone else to return it to his friends. A budget surplus is overtaxation of people and a budget deficit is undertaxation of people. Middle class created the budget surplus and it was returned to the wealthy. The current deficit is benefiting wealth and Halliburton and the deficit will be paid by our middleclass kids. I predict Hillary will do a “scream” and lose composure in public. </p>
<p>I want Huckabee to win the Republican nomination because he is the easist to beat. He jokes a bit too much. The swiftboats will get Huckabee and get him good. I just wondering what they will make up on him.</p>
<p>Mc Cain is too Old. Romney looks like a CEO or big corporate manager that just laid off half your small town. Besides too many people worry that Romney will change on the marriage issue, you know being from Massachuttes and Mormon, people will think Romney will institute marriage between a Man and a woman & a woman & a woman.</p>
<p>I just noticed that the republicans have better trophy wives than the democrats.</p>