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Old 10-25-06, 07:34 AM   #8
Captain Nemo
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Originally Posted by The Avon Lady
Maybe Thatcher should come out of retirement.
I remember when good old Maggie was elected in 1979, one of the first things her government did was to lower the basic rate of income tax from 33% to 30%. Great I thought until I read on that they had increased value added tax from 7.5% to 15%. With any government in the UK what you get in one hand is taken back with the other.

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