On 2006-08-23 18:05:12 +0100, David Hansen
said:

On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 16:16:10 GMT someone who may be "Brian Reay"
wrote this:-

It is time we displayed prices without VAT so people start to recognise
how much we are being ripped off.

Ripped off?

What do you think VAT pays for? Perhaps you could do without the
health service, roads, the armed forces and so on, but I doubt if
many would.

One could delete the health service and save a substantial proportion
of tax revenue....