I Could Fix Government

I reckon I could fix the government you know. It is a matter  of addressing the fundamentals. Certainly as many have perceived, locking MP's up for criminal activity would be a good start. But my thoughts drift elsewhere.

When I return from a supermarket visit, I have a piece of paper on which the supermarket has helpfully printed a product description and the price I paid for it, with a total at the bottom. Very helpful in checking that I have been charged correctly and even for comparing prices.

Compare this with a 'Tax Statement'. This pop through the door and has things like 'opening balance', with a figure, then some other to-ing and fro-ing of numbers, maybe with an explanation such as 'on account' and then a total.

You may have no idea where the 'opening balance' came from, nor how it is calculated. You most likely won't be able to follow what the other items are and so have no idea why they arrive at the total they do. It is this assumption on the part on the state that they owe you absolutely nothing, no courtesy, no explanation, nothing that is the root of the problem.

Cure that mindset and you start to cure an awful lot. It is beyond the wit of politicians though, They would first have to come to believe they exist to serve the people and their country.

Inflation

We don't talk much about inflation these days, because we don't seem to see an across the board, upward movement in prices. Across the board being the important bit. Clothing prices, technology prices and many other such items don't seem to have gone up much, if at all. House prices obviously have been depressed.

So where is the inflation coming from? Well, food prices have been volatile, for not readily discernible reasons and energy prices in particular have sky rocketed. Then there is increased income tax, NI, VAT and things like petrol duty. But the government is also behind the rise of energy prices to a large degree. Firstly, foreign companies have been allowed to buy our utility companies (something that is often not permitted in their own country) and most of these companies are now foreign owned.

Secondly, the regulation of these companies is extraordinarily lax and they have increased prices for greater profit, massively (again, something their own countries forbid, hence the interest in coming here), which is the governments fault. And lastly they have been slammed with 'green taxes' and enforced 'buy ins' of ridiculously expensive 'renewable' energy, which is added to the bill. Forced, by the government.

So all in all, the main reason your life is so difficult, is a direct consequence of government action or inaction. Your life is being ruined by the very people who are supposed to run things competently on your behalf. Indeed, the cost of government is due to the incompetence of the people buying in equipment for the MoD or the NHS IT system or indeed, any PFI project. Or Global Warming, or any other of the myriad stupid scams that MP's with their special gullibility and their access to our money, fall for.