[andrewb]

It is outrageous how much we're being taxed, and for what? Money is being funnelled in to the public sector, but are there any results? No. Just Waste, waste, waste.

It gets worse, Brown has increased the burden on local councils over the last 11 years. Giving them more responsibilities but not enough money to fund it. This means all the councils, be it Labour, Conservative or Lib Dem have to increase their tax, increase the burden on the tax payer. You can have a safe bet on no reductions being made on national tax even though they are doing less.

The problem is even with all this taxation the books are very tight, so it appears there's not much room for manoeuvre if a Conservative government were to come into place.