A Tax on Coeliacs – 2
It’s funny, but all the budget forums I’ve read so far have got coeliacs in them moaning about the tax on cider. There are three in this article in the Guardian for a start.
If nothing else, Darling has at least got coeliacs talking about their condition on the Internet.
As they make up one percent of the population, could they have an effect on the election? Probably not, but it does show how stupid Darling is. Surely, he needed to bring in a flat tax rate for drinks like cider, so that cheap crap was taxed heavily and the good expensive stuff wasn’t.
But then in most cases you have to be stupid to be a politician!
The Banks Hidden Charges With Zopa
Not on Zopa!
Everything they do is detailed on your statement.
But take this week.
I wanted to put £500 into Zopa on Monday, so I did the transfer then. Only three days later has it turned up in my Zopa account. It used to be done straight from my debit card, but then one of the banks said that doing it that way, they didn’t get their pound of flesh.
So effectively they have my money for three days. At my rate of return on Zopa, that’s about forty-five pence.
Why?
I suppose they have to make their bonuses some way. My old mate, David, once told me that in the 1980s banks made a third of their profits on this sort of overnight money.
Has anything changed?
The Cider Revolt
The BBC has just had a full hour on the tax on cider.
But perhaps the most extraordinary feature is the number of protests on Facebook in a Group called, “Leave Our Cider Alone”. It has got over 13,000 members in well under a day.
The Anonymous Widower 