Cost Of Id Cards Soars

[JPaul]

aren't they just going to make the terrorists get them?

Now that's sensible thinking.

[Biggles]

aren't they just going to make the terrorists get them?

Now that's sensible thinking.

It would be much fairer it has to be said.

I have no problem with ID cards per se but I do resent the idea of forking out £93 for one ... plus, what does one do re: kids, they have individual passports these days. If I am forking out for three I will be extremely peeved.

[Rat Faced]

I'll do the same thing with this legislation as i did with the Poll Tax.. tell them to stuff it.

If i get biometrics taken to renew my passport, fair enough.. I decide that i wish to travel abroad. Same with Driving License, i decide i wish to drive.

I will not pay for an ID card, no matter how many times they fine me,, stuff them. I know who i am.

[bigboab]

RF
I'll do the same thing with this legislation as i did with the Poll Tax.. tell them to stuff it

I take it then,that by telling them to stuff the Poll Tax and ID Cards(thread) you would be adverse to a local income tax to replace the council tax.

[Rat Faced]

Boab,

If they take away a Property Tax, and replace it with a Local Income Tax I guarantee that within 10 years you will have another Property Tax at some level and will be paying both.


Besides, Property Taxes are a lot cheaper to administer.

There are a number of things that should be done to make the Council Tax fairer; including bringing in an "Ability to Pay" element and vastly increasing the number of Bands. However, as property is an asset that rises in value so considerably... if you remove it from the local Tax System then it will be expoited at a National Level later.

You of all people should remember how we came to pay both Car Tax AND duty on the fuel...

[JPaul]

Now that's sensible thinking.

It would be much fairer it has to be said.

I have no problem with ID cards per se but I do resent the idea of forking out £93 for one ... plus, what does one do re: kids, they have individual passports these days. If I am forking out for three I will be extremely peeved.

I pretty much agree with that.

However it will be 6 for me. On the not unresonable assuption that Mrs JP will insist on me getting all of them, including one for the working 19 year old.

[bigboab]

You of all people should remember how we came to pay both Car Tax AND duty on the fuel...

Yes, I understand. In 1956 they put 5 bob(25p) on a gallon of petrol because of the Suez Crisis. They never took it back off again. I have no ID (Thread) who was responsible.