Gordon Brown has lifted the tax burden to breaking point and must slash public spending or risk plunging Britain's national accounts dangerously into the red, the International Monetary Fund warned yesterday. Are we paying too much?

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The direct and indirect tax in this country is way way beyond the pail but hey some one as to pay for the politicians high life and their pension's, croquette any one ??

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you'd think that

but we have massive houses with equally massive mortgages

our cars are huge petrol guzzlers

we have wide-screen tv's and broadband connected pc's

we have an endless supply of video consoles and games to play on them

we have gym memberships and we eat out and entertain far more than any previous generation.

so how badly off are we really ?

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pmsl

sorry, tiger, but that's a style of cooked potato.

croquet, i think you mean

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Bloody English language i knew what i meant.........i blame the spell checker on here :<)

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I don't think they should be allowed to tax overtime pay.

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We also have levels of personal debt that show most of us are living far beyond our means... Maybe if taxes weren't so high...

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I'm £115,000 in dept all together. Brilliant :-)

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erm... maybe if we all started living within our means ...

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Maybe if taxes weren't so high, we wouldn't bloody have to! ;)

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