what happenned?

[R1Geezer]

Stamp Duty
Tobacco Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Income Tax

Council Tax
Unemployment Tax
Fish ing License Tax
Petrol/Diesel Tax
Inheritance Tax
(tax on top of tax)
Alcohol Tax
V.A.T.
Marriage License Tax
Property Tax
Service charge taxes
Social Security Tax
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Workers Compensation Tax

Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago and our nation was one of the most prosperous in the world.

We had absolutely no national debt.
We had the largest middle class in the world and Mum stayed home to raise the kids.

[sandyRoe]

Was there a Boer war in 1799?

[jake-the-peg]

We had absolutely no national debt a hundred years ago?

You really don't know what you're talking about do you?

http://www.ukpublicsp...%20Percent%20Of%20GDP

Our highest ever national debt was in 1820 at over 2.5 times our GDP

The way you simply don't check the most basic facts is actually pretty disrespectful to the other people on here - You're either too lazy to do it or you think nobody will check up on you

[jno]

Could it be you've just cut and pasted this from one of those emails, without checking whether any of it was true? Surely not.

[DTCwordfan]

what a load of bo11ocks this question is......and an implication of absolute sexism. Shame they hadn't invented time warp travel as R1Geezer could travel back to those Halcyon days of 1911 with all its repression and poverty for a large chunk of the population....and who were destined to start falling in their millions, starting three years hence.

Too much Downturn Abbey watching, me fears.

[rov1100]

What some politicians don't seem to realise is that every time you go to war £bnsx100 are taken from economy not only to pay for armaments but trade to other other regresses. Gordon Brown shouted from the rooftops when Chancellor that our debt to the US had finally finished for WWII.

As Jakes chart shows it went up heavily following WW1 also. We are still paying for Iraq and Afghanistan wars a heavy price to pay for those ungrateful nations.

In the meantime other countries not involved in wars have overtaken us in wealth, personal and national, and our taxes have reflected this.

When will we ever learn??

[mike11111]

What about Pitt's Window tax? or Peter the Great's tax on beards?

[bednobs]

""Stamp duty bednobs.. ""
yes but geezer has put stamp duty as his first "tax" so what is property tax?

[ChuckFickens]

I think R1 forgot to remove some of the original American taxes from the email too

http://www.democratic...ll&address=105x219659