Recycling changes...

DoggedWalker

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If "the idea the state should take more than half of what you earn as income tax is ludicrous" why was it perfectly acceptable from the early 1950s to the early 1980s ? .

I’m not an economist but I’d hazard a guess that for at least part of that time suppressing earnings and wage growth was a deliberate policy to suppress inflation post-war.

The size of the economy and earning potential for much of that period was such that a much smaller number of people would ever have paid the highest rate of tax compared to now. And I’m fairly certain that we faced some pretty tumultuous economic crisis in that period too.
 

essexian

Active Member
If it is a choice of the state taking half of what I earn and plowing the money back into better services for all, or having to spend 429USD a month as Americans do on average to private health insurance (Source: https://www.forbes.com/advisor/health-insurance/how-much-does-health-insurance-cost/) and then to hope that it will actually pay out: if its a choice of paying more in tax so that if I am sick, I can get ESA/PIP etc, or working until I drop as most Americans have to do with no sickness pay, or if its a choice of paying for a basic state pension through taxes or having to fight the wolves who run private pension schemes at a huge profit for themselves.... frankly, raise my taxes anyday.

And as for the NHS being inefficient, the US health insurance industry spends up to 30% of its income on Admin. https://www.forbes.com/advisor/health-insurance/how-much-does-health-insurance-cost/ The NHS costs nothing like that in admin.
 

DoggedWalker

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If it is a choice of the state taking half of what I earn and plowing the money back into better services for all, or having to spend 429USD a month as Americans do on average to private health insurance (Source: https://www.forbes.com/advisor/health-insurance/how-much-does-health-insurance-cost/) and then to hope that it will actually pay out: if its a choice of paying more in tax so that if I am sick, I can get ESA/PIP etc, or working until I drop as most Americans have to do with no sickness pay, or if its a choice of paying for a basic state pension through taxes or having to fight the wolves who run private pension schemes at a huge profit for themselves.... frankly, raise my taxes anyday.

And as for the NHS being inefficient, the US health insurance industry spends up to 30% of its income on Admin. https://www.forbes.com/advisor/health-insurance/how-much-does-health-insurance-cost/ The NHS costs nothing like that in admin.
Why automatically jump to the US healthcare system which is dreadful in cost and delivery? It’s renowned for it and is THE system no one would replicate.
 

essexian

Active Member
As its the one which:

1) We as Brits know the best from all the TV which is forced down our throats.
2) it is the one which the NHS hating Tories: remember they voted against it back in 1946, have close links and indeed, with which they have held talks regarding selling off parts to it.
 

bunique

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I have to take most cardboard to our office bin as it’ll never all fit in that tiny bag. They should have done it the other way around but here we are
You can have more than one blue bag. We’ve somehow ended up with three. You can also put cardboard out alongside the blue bags as long as they’re a similar size/shape to a full bag. So fill another box with card and paper and put it alongside the bag. Works better in summer!
 

Mudgie

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You can have more than one blue bag. We’ve somehow ended up with three. You can also put cardboard out alongside the blue bags as long as they’re a similar size/shape to a full bag. So fill another box with card and paper and put it alongside the bag. Works better in summer!
We had two blue bags, left both out filled, both emptied, only one returned, so we've just got one now.
 

Cue

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You can have more than one blue bag. We’ve somehow ended up with three. You can also put cardboard out alongside the blue bags as long as they’re a similar size/shape to a full bag. So fill another box with card and paper and put it alongside the bag. Works better in summer!

I’d rather we put cardboard in the bin and plastic/metal in the bag as that makes far more sense
 

Theresa Green

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staffordjas

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I like the no change of days on bank Holidays here in Worcester. Collected same day as usual, each time , bank holiday or not.

My bin bin & sons recycling both done this morning :)
 
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