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Old 30-12-2010, 11:28   #19
Margaret Pilkington
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Re: How do you feel?

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Originally Posted by Gordon Booth View Post
Margaret, I think the way it will work is when you put your card in it will show you the bill and leave a place where you can add your contribution to add to the bill.The girl doesn't have to ask you. Some restaurants do this-it annoys me, if I'm tipping I give it the waiter, not put it straight into the owners account.
Will the Government decide who it goes to, or the supermarket, or you? If it's the Government will they give it to some poor third world country to help finance more nuclear weapons? No thanks, not for me!
I can see how it works in restaurants, but if you are paying for groceries at Asda surely they will have to ask if you want your bill rounded up....you don't get presented with the receipt until you have paid your money......and how will it be decided what charities you are giving to?

I do not trust any government to look after money that is meant to be for someone else.

The idea of donating 1% of our income is ludicrous too........it is blatantly obvious that the folk who suggest such a measure are living vastly different lives to the rest of us.
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