NetCynics Blog

According to this petition:

A lot of people being treated badly, due to all kinds of social predjudice. Be it due to bullying, race, religion, social standing or the clothes they wear. It is time all these prejudices were put into one catogory covered by a single set of laws.Allowing everyone to feel they are treated equally.

I keep trying to figure out what such a set of laws would look like and every time I try I keep hearing Bill & Ted yelling “Be excellent to each other!”

Oh, this is good: a petition about a petition.

I want to see Jane Eden and Dan B in the same room, debating the relative merits of their petitions.

From this petition:

For many years now all British governments regardless of background, have taxed the People of the United Kingdom on there Working income known as pay as you earn, (P.Y.E)this includes their overtime. Many people are pressured into working overtime due to low hourly rates or from Employers often to the determent of their family life. By all all means tax normal working hours but not overtime.

I’m going to ignore all the obvious errors in the above (it seems that errors in the text are the done thing for e-petitions). What I’m trying to work out is the connection between tax on income earned while working overtime and the fact that some employers force people to work extra hours. If the concern was for family life in the UK (that’s the suggestion you get from the above) then wouldn’t it make sense to increase the tax taken on money earned from overtime, thus making people think even harder before ignoring their families?

Perhaps I’m totally missing the point, but I’d have thought that the idea of increasing the employer’s national insurance contributions on overtime payments would have been a little closer to what the author was after.

You’d think people would spell-check their offerings to the PM, wouldn’t you?

Technorati Tags: funny, idiocy

Continue Reading »

I get the impression that the author of this petition hasn’t really thought the idea all the way through.

The author wants to “abolish income tax and raise the lost revenue from motor and aviation fuel tax”. Apparently “this is the only hope for reducing carbon emissions adequately See Al Gore’s film An inconvenient truth“.

Perhaps I’m missing something obvious here but, if it works, won’t that mean there is little to no revenue available?