The Govt seeing as its there hare brained schemeOriginally Posted by Virtualbody1234
Who else?
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The Govt seeing as its there hare brained schemeWho else?
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And where do they get the money?The Govt seeing as its there hare brained schemeWho else?
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As i said it would then be your tax money.... so you would be paying.The Govt seeing as its there hare brained schemeWho else?
it’s an election with no Democrats, in one of the whitest states in the union, where rich candidates pay $35 for your votes. Or, as Republicans call it, their vision for the future.
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From the funds they already have
They don't need to tax us more, as they say our economy is doing good so they have plenty available
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they make billions each year through customs and excise hoards.And where do they get the money?
The Govt seeing as its there hare brained scheme
not to mention the ridiculous amount of money they get from speed cameras which, supposedly, go to road maintenance
they have the money, trust me.
perhaps if we didn't go to war everytime we get someone new into office, our war chest could cover this. but then i think they love spending thousands per tomahawk
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You missed the part of the report that looked at how the 10,000 volunteers had worked.
It was discovered that the Biometric Data was only recognised in 80% of cases (That includes fingerprints), and that for disabled this figure dropped to 60% or thereabouts.
So its also a system that doesnt even work 20%+ of the time.
The costing also ignored the costs of the readers @ £750 a time, wherever they're needed.
It was also worked out that the processing centres they proposed (ie those costed for the £93 figure) could ony handle a maximum of 1,000,000 per year.
This means it would take 44 years just to issue everyone that has a passport now an ID card, once they are up and running.
It also doesnt take into account the annual running costs.
And a final costing cannot be given because of "Commercial" reasons, due to the fact they havent acually asked for companies to Tender for the contracts yet (to supply the euipment)..
However, to keep it balanced.. 2/3 of that cost has to be spent anyway, to introduce Biometric Passports. So the puely ID card part (that has been costed) is only circa £33.
Tories and LibDems will now vote against it.
If they couldnt push it through with the Majority they had last year... i'd be surprised if they managed now.
Last edited by Rat Faced; 05-25-2005 at 08:59 PM.
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can i just add at this point that for a pack of 20 cigarettes (a carton) it costs us £5.00+ ($9.15 USD). £4.30 or so is made up of TAX.
don't let me start getting figures of our petrol (gas)...
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What difference does the method of collection or the date of collection make...it's still money that has or will be collected from citizens.... tax payers
it’s an election with no Democrats, in one of the whitest states in the union, where rich candidates pay $35 for your votes. Or, as Republicans call it, their vision for the future.
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it doesn't make it right though does it?
you could say the same about everything then? at the end of the day they have more than enough funds to cover this they're choosing to dump it on us because they know we'll end up paying it
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My complaint is if they expect us to hand over £93 at the time of receiving the card, as if we were purchasing.
I couldn't give two hoots if they financed it with surplus tax from 2002/3
Last edited by DanB; 05-25-2005 at 09:12 PM.
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