DC writes - let's help businesses create jobs
Prime Minister David Cameron writes:
Britain’s small businesses are the lifeblood of our economy. Their success will determine our success - and their expansion will give us the best prospect of more jobs and lower unemployment.
For many small businesses, taking on new staff is one of the biggest hurdles to overcome. We’ve got to do more to help them. When someone is trying to create jobs in our economy, the Government should be making it easier not harder.
That’s why we’re cutting National Insurance for every business by up to £2,000 from April. This will mean that 450,000 small businesses will pay no National Insurance at all - a third of all employers.
For many small businesses, taking on new staff is one of the biggest hurdles to overcome. We’ve got to do more to help them. When someone is trying to create jobs in our economy, the Government should be making it easier not harder.
That’s why we’re cutting National Insurance for every business by up to £2,000 from April. This will mean that 450,000 small businesses will pay no National Insurance at all - a third of all employers.
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Our economy is turning a corner - but the struggle of the past few years will only be worth it if we finish the job we started. That means helping small businesses create more good jobs around the country.
This goes right to the heart of what our Government is about - building a recovery that all hardworking people can share in.
This goes right to the heart of what our Government is about - building a recovery that all hardworking people can share in.
Yours,
David Cameron
Comments
next steps should be to cap benefit at full time earnings on min wage, 39 hours at 6.31 is 12,700 so cap benefit at 12,000 per year. and take a full time at min wage out of income tax too. (that means £12,700 tax allowance)
Thus work always pays.
There is a big dent out of the deficit and its taken me 4 minutes to do it.
Its long been held by politicians of all colours, that people want more services and lower taxes (this they almost always run deficits) - now it is true no one likes to pay taxes, but that people want more in the way of services is much less evident.
Council tax referendums have shown time and again that people don't want to pay more council tax even when extra services are offered in return. A political idea will receive a lot more backing when its just a nod of the head, especially when its perceived someone else will foot the bill, but its less evident when it means people have to put their hand in their pocket to do it.
The best experiment I can think of to show this is simply to suspend all taxes, that's it, for one year, no taxes at all. Now people can donate to the service of choice if they want to but they are not forced to. Lets see how popular public services are then. All donations are strictly anonymous to prevent any large groups or company's gaining brownie points, and every budget is ring fenced, so if you donate to the NHS its spent on the NHS not on transport or benefits, so come on lets see how much people really do value public services.
So what? - you dont get elected, so what? The only reason it would be limited is because many voters live in a "something for nothing" culture, offered to them in the first place by......politicians. So the only danger of slashing public spending, and lowering taxes is that after the next election people fall for the false promise of something for nothing, and elect someone who reverses all the good you done.
As for the economy, then the market will correct itself, if only its left alone to do it. Now sure you wont get another "boom" but ho hum, this means you wont get another bust, just stable economic growth.
My calls for cutting spending and taxes are like me saying let me out at the next service station and I will make my own way home thanks.