People in the UK Are you fed up with having to keeping paying for everything?
818975
I wish the British people would pay for better education. "Surly", is an interesting way to perceive this argument, but I don't think it's the right way, if you want a better country, you need to be taxed. The question is, who to tax? Big Business? The government need them in this country to provide employment. I think it shows that the British still have an aptitude to keep complaining.
587925
Quit cying.  Europeans have been paying even more for years.  We're spoiled rotten.
377644
No not really.  A few years ago they raised the stamp duty threshold from £30,000 to £60,000 claiming it was to help first time buyers but where can you get a house under £60,000?\n\nI've not heard of them releasing £12 million but with a million first time buyers entering the market each year that's really going to go a long way!  It could provide 2 or 3 bottles of wine for each buyer for them to drown their sorrows when they realise there's no way they can afford a house.\n\nWhat the government are planning on doing is spending billions of pounds of tax-payers money to build houses in areas that don't really need them at the expense of areas that do need them.  For example, where I am in Leeds the city is rapidly expanding due to an economic boom (apparently) with over a 50% population increase between the last two censuses.  At this rate Leeds will be the UK's 2nd city by the time of the next census.  As far as I'm aware there hasn't been a single government incentive anywhere near Leeds but they're insisting on pumping billions into London and the surrounding area which has a declining population.  From my point of view it's been very good as I bought the house I'm now in back in 1997 since when it's increased in value by 600% and my monthly mortgage repayment is equal to two days pay.\n\nRaising interest rates by any significant amount will have a disasteous effect as many people have stretched themselves to the limit in order to buy a house.  A lot of lenders have acted very irresponsibly by knowlingly lending to people that can't really afford the repayments.  A 1% rise in interest rates will add more than £100 a month onto the average mortgage payment.  Many people wouldn't be able to afford this and we'd see huge numbers of repossessions and people forced into nagative equity situations just like we did in the early 90's.\n\nWhat the government is proposing to do is to provide low cost housing for key workers such as teachers, nurses and police officers.  This doesn't do much to help people in other professions and amounts to little more than a bribe to draw people into professions where government policies have created a working environment that's so bad there's a chronic shortage of people to fill vacancies.  We're already having to recruit large numbers of teaching and medical staff from overseas and when you look at the state of schools and the health service is it any wonder?  I dare say it won't be long before we're draining the resources of other countries in order to staff the police force.\n\nUltimately house prices are determined by demand and in many ways a false demand is being created by the government's refusal to renovate the one million or so delapidated and derelict poperties.  These could be renovated at far less cost then building new homes and would provide affordable accommodation in many areas of the country where there is a shortage of decent housing.\n\nAnother problem lies with the banks and financial institutions themsleves.  Their primary concern is to look after their share-holders interests which means making as much money as possible and so they're keen to maintain high house prices and to lend the maximum possible amounts.  As you're undoubtedly aware these institutions have a powerful role in government policies.\n\nAt the end of the day house prices and interest rates are determined by market forces and more than anything, market forces are determined by big business.
584559
If you want stuff, there will be bills.  \n\nWant more stuff? Get ready to pay more, unless you can get someone else to pay for it.  That's what rich people do.\n\nUsually it's the middle class that finances everything.  Get in line; it's milking time.  But sometimes this is worth it.  Somebody's gotta pay.
651426
Because they are all after one thing and one thing only, your money. Once they have your money they could give a shit less about your service. You are better off trying to figure it out yourself then trying to get them dumb asses to do it. Service in this country sucks big time. They are all money hungry!!!
849125
Isn't it the same as everyone else?  With credit cards or PayPal etc?
512773
pay your bloody bills
699529
=not sure about the UK, but here in the states not at all.  For the most part they have put in the time and have already paid state taxes on that money.
368448
Tell your bank to stop payment on the account...
995663
why won't u pay for stuff?
1074395
NOPE.. not when I am paying through the nose for my family.. as everything- they need to get legal and do things like we all do them.. that's it.
938468
Absolutely agree with you .\nWhy pay a levy for something your not in agreement with .\nYour joining a trade union not a political party.\nI find this real annoying .
124761
As soon as people stop paying it.
932658
I am 100% with you on the NTL thing I really hate that company.\n\nI have spent so many hours on the phone trying to get various problems with my service sorted out only to be given unhelpful comments and be put on hold for ages.\n\nNow they are charging me £4 a month for not paying them by Direct Debit, but when I did set up a direct debit with them last year they took £200 out of my bank that i did not owe them, it made other cheques I had written bounce and took a lot of my time to sort out.\n\nThe worst thing is that the building I live in is wired up to only use NTL so I'm stuck with them until I move.\n\nLol sorry for the rant there, when someone brings up NTL I can't help myself.
945089
Because our benefits system is totally messed up. I read somewhere yesterday that there was some homeless woman who could not be housed or helped because she was not a priority case. How homeless do you need to be? Immigrants are a cheap source of labour, and the government is all too happy to take them in - more £££ for them you see?\n\nThis whole situation is out of control now, and it's way way too late to do anything about it.
884835
they are bang out of order, i only have a bank account because the child benefit agency and tax credits lot want to pay into an account!!!\nand as the money is for my kids i wanted to keep it separate from our main account. I don't want to have to pay for my account as it would come to a large sum over a yr as not that much gets paid in to start with
787753
You can get insurance for when you are off work due to illness. The SSP is to help you out and not to pay all your bills.  What should the state pay? Your broadband bill, your car costs, your credit cards, where does it stop.  It is like the Job seekers allowance.  It is there to help you out.  Trouble is so many people stay on benefit, IE young single mums, drug addicts, lazy people who have never paid into the welfare state.  Too many people expect far too much from the state.  I know a young mother who is 21 and has never worked.  She has 5 children, a council house a dog two rabbits and a seven seater MPV.  She claims a fortune every week and keeps on turning out babies so she doesn't have to go to work.  The kids have different fathers who are on state benefits and have never worked. One is married with 4 kids all fed and clothed on the state.  The woman I speak of has a babysitter twice a week provided by the state because she cannot cope with her kids.  They collect the kids and return them later in the day to give her a break.  She batters them and gets away with it.  She also goes out drinking every Friday and Saturday night. Everything in her house has been provided by the likes of you who normally work for a living. She had her first child at 14 and her language is foul.  That is why the state cannot pay you any more than 70 pounds a week.  Hands up anyone who knows of similar cases.