On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 18:05:12 +0100, David Hansen
wrote:

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?

Dunno.

I know what it gets spent on ...

Buying votes with benefits (Turkeys don't vote for Christmas).

Right-on, 60's hippy-esque harebrained PC schemes to pacify Old Lab.

Incompetance, such as the various state IT fiascos (watch out for news
about ISOFT and Accenture before the end of the week.) This list is
not by any means exclusive.

DG


Perhaps you could do without the
health service, roads, the armed forces and so on, but I doubt if
many would.