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Pete Smith

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I can't say I have a second home, but why should a second home be heavily
taxed?

Because people who own 2 houses are clearly very rich, and the rich should
be targeted for tax for two reasons:

1) Social justice

I can't believe this!

I'm self employed in my spare time, to bring in some extra money.

As soon as I start doing this, the Government want £8 per month, plus 29%
(and then more in due course) of all of my profits.

Because I want to better myself, I have to pay the government almost a third
of what I earn.

If I want to save any of that money, I can only save a certain amount before
I start getting taxed on _that too_ (and as of 2006, I can save even less)

OTOH, I could lie about being disabled/unemployable, and let the same
government pick up the bill for me, (and because I've got nothing else to
do), my 10 children, while I watch Sky Sports all day in my 2 council houses
knocked together.

Social justice my arse!

An awful lot of the people out there who "are clearly very rich" also
clearly work very hard for their money.

(OTOH, there are some really rich chinless wonders out there who don't work
hard, but you can't tar everyone with the same brush)

Pete.

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