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The World at 8 – It’s not ‘racist’ when Asians say it

Mon, 19/09/2011 - 20:12

Tonight on The World at 8 with Lynne Mozar – Asian Baroness Flather has said Pakistanis and Bangladeshis are having too many children in Britain to get extra benefits off the welfare state. 

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Tax: Pay Up, Britons, You Have Bankers, the EU, Foreign Aid and the Immigration Swindle to Finance

Already hard-pressed British taxpayers faces some of the largest direct and indirect tax rises in recent history, as petrol prices reach record highs and many families set to pay in extra tax of at least £2,800 extra each year.

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Comments |  Tags: Alternative Minimum Tax, Finance, Political economy, Public economics, Public finance, Social Issues, Tax, Tax incidence, Tax reform, Taxation, Taxation in the United States, Value added tax

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VAT Increase: British People to Pay in Extra £13 Billion as Foreign Aid Budget Rises to £12.1 Billion

Hard-pressed British consumers will be forced to pay in an extra £13 billion as a result of the Value Added Tax (VAT) increase — an amount which barely covers the ConDem regime’s £12.1 billion foreign aid budget.

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Comments |  Tags: Finance, Political economy, Public economics, Tax, Tax reform, Taxation, Value added tax

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Ireland’s Debt Crisis: But What About Britain’s?

Much current media attention is focused on the £7 billion extra which British taxpayers will have to stump up to bail out Ireland — but no-one has taken the time to look at Britain’s sovereign debt levels which are nearly identical to that of Ireland.

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Comments |  Tags: Deficit, Economics, Government debt, Late 2000s recession in Europe, Political economy, Public economics, Public finance, United States public debt

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ConDems Raise VAT to Pay EU and Foreign Aid

By Andrew Moffatt, BNP Economics Department -- The chief beneficiaries and causes behind th