Ministers are drawing up plans for a tax raid on Britain’s banks worth hundreds of millions of pounds, The Sunday Telegraph has learned.It would have been cheaper and simpler not to have bailed them out in the first place, you feckless cunts.
The radical move, being considered as a way of forcing banks to pay a price for the taxpayer-funded bail-out of the financial system, could include a one-off “windfall” tax on profits.
Sunday, 18 October 2009
Making hay while the sun shines...
... in the best tradition of governments that can see the end is nigh and just don't give a good fuck anymore (my emphasis).
I heard a brief bit on the radio today that self-certified mortgages are going to be banned too. As usual, it seems government reaction is going way over the top and could prove just as damaging as the original problem.
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