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This is obviously an objective criteria, so the mods are always right. Or maybe mildly right? Ahh.. what do we know?
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I assume "Other purposes" is govt kickbacks to mining and gas companies 😬
Tories in the UK did this and obfuscated to their agenda
They showed "pensions" but that was only public sector worker pensions then added the universal state pension to the "benefits" section to claim we had a bloated benefits budget for scroungers despite them being the party of triple lock pension (linked to greater of wages, inflation and aribitary 2%)
Nice to see our debt is being reduced. Meanwhile, the US is struggling to figure out how not to let their economy implode.
Un~~fortunately paying the interest on your debt is not the same as paying down the actual (principle) debt. Unless there's something I'm not seeing.~~
Edit: There was in fact something I wasn't seeing.
See “gross debt this year” and “last year”. We had surplus so it has been put toward paying down the principle
They got is sorted mate. They printing more money.
We get this in the UK too 👍.
do we?? i don't think i've ever had one of these. do you have to apply for one or can you access it online?
I've seen it on the council tax statement but not otherwise.
You will get one with your council tax bill that will cover your local constituency. But I've never seen one for my tax as a whole.
I'm surprised so much money is going towards disability, what kind of stuff do they get?
What @hanni said. But they also split out the unemployment payment as the disability support payment. So it’s all the disabled pension too.
Mannnn... I wish we had this in the U.S. Unfortunately it would ruin a lot of the propaganda forced down our throats, disabling some talking points for our dumbass politicians.
They'd never give us something so comprehensive.
In the US we just all know that it's bombs to kill the enemies of whoever the companies are allowed to sell them to, and fighter jets that don't work.
Is this hard to do in practice? I would love to see a breakdown like this in the United States, and especially on a local level. What’s involved in getting this information? Where does someone even start to request something like this?
I wish we had this in Canada.
I wish we had it in New Zealand too. I get tired of people's hallucinations about tax.
Mildly interesting.