Osborne: Don't drive away wealthy

Love the wealthy they are paying for the NHS

There's only one place to drive the tax avoiding wealthy.. and thats over a cliff ! along with there mate Osbourne... and your not a Tory Minister by any chance are you sheppeygrant .. you sound exactly like the crap spin that they put out over and over ..and v.a.t. is a tax on the poorest ..always has been ! you dont think for one minute that they wont avoid v.a.t. as much as they do income tax ? come on !!

Dont forget that not all wealthy people avoid income tax - something like 30% of the entire income tax take comes from the wealthiest 1% of taxpayers. And even those that do avoid paying much tax still pay 20% VAT on things they buy - and most of them buy a lot. They also provide jobs and employ people, and each of those people pays taxes and spends money... We would all be worse off if this govt does drive the wealthy away.

As for Clegg he only makes statements but doesn't have the balls to carry them statements out.

No surprise ther! Osy would never drive the rich away its only us oeasants that he wants riddddddd!
Kick em all out

drive them away , their queuing up to live here thanks to the tax avoidance system and the tory policys of helping them get richer.

He says that he doesn't want to drive away the rich. They can leave whenever they like as they have the financial means to live anywhere of their choosing. Unlike the majority of us who are just cannon fodder for his guns, constantly being shot at by his policies to remove as much of our money from us as possible. This is regardless of our ability to feed ourselves or our children. God forbid that we should take an extra 10p in tax off someone who earns 20 times the minimum wage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

dont drive away conservative voters he means

Had Mr Osborne listened and done sensible measures we would not be in a state of emergency. One of the worst waste of police ambulance and casualty is Booze, had he put £1.00 tax on spirits, 50p on wine and 25p on cans we would not have had to be so cruel with Disabled people the poor or the Elderly. He should exempt pubs.

He could have added Council tax to wages and benefits and sold off the c/tax buildings, no more arrears no more Court time and millions in arrears could pay a fixed amount to clear debts. He could have introduced a dog licence which would help to stop cruelty. There were so many things he could have done and should stop this ATOS cruelty as the BMA agrees. What really suprises me is that Osborne and Cameron were ETON educated, I was secondry modern and could have cleared the Debt with sensible ideas. What the hell does this say for Eaton ??

All we get are pathetic ideas that cost more than save. Why use a French firm to assess benefits. we need the jobs , sod giving money to the french. Mr Osborne needs to cut 50% of MPs in the commons all claiming expenses for travel, meals. Their is no need to have a third party only the winners and runners up. Out of these only those that the days business affects should be present.
Lords reform was right to cut them by 50% as its heaving and Why ??? money, expenses, half fal asleep its pathetic.

Not one Disabled , Elderly or poor person caused this debt, unfortunatelly they are paying and some with their lives. Cant Osborne realise that 1 in 100 babies are born Disabled and a bably born every minute. This man needs to resign along with greyling and Ian Duncan Smith. We need a chancellor who knows what he is doing and GEORGE your a failure. .........My last remark is this, If any libdem is allowed to join Labour, I will vote UKIP, There is millions to be saved in imigration. I agree below if i had money i would quit this broken britain without a second thought.

Mr Clegg represents a more and more socialist view of tax collection as he nudges ever closer to labour.
He wants to continue in a coalition government, regardless of the policies. He does not focus on the needs of the nation to have a strong economy.
Export more, import less, reduce state spending, create blockbuster products - all escape him. Plays tit for tat with conservatives like a 5 year old. I'm not saying others are necessarily any better, but in his position you expect him to have solutions for big issues. Increasing taxes on the so called rich is a political gesture, it won't raise much. Just keep them here and VAT, their employees and their spending power will earn the Treasury far more.
Reality is that his contributions are shallow, trivial and together with Mr Cameron, coalition leadership is weak. Add Mr Osborne, the governor of BoE and I get the feeling that absolutely nothing is being done to help the economy or to reduce debt. Mr Clegg wake up!