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Jun 16, 2008, 03:31 AM
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Jun 16, 2008, 03:31 AM
One of the pleasures of travelling by train are the overheard conversations.
This morning I was joined at my table (oh so nice to be alone trying to think of some tax-related items of interest) by three ladies: two, shall we say, middle-aged, one younger and visibly pregnant.
Their conversation was about babies, and it transpired that middle-aged lady 1 had several children, middle-aged lady 2 had none, while younger lady 1 was expecting her first.
Following a reasonably anatomically detailed conversation relating to the difficulties of them and their friends in conceiving (la, la, la, can’t hear you!), the conversation – along with the train – took a sudden lurch.
Middle-aged lady 1: ‘Do you know, I read somewhere that by 2080 they will be growing vines at Hadrian’s Wall. But they won’t be in this part of the country (West Sussex). It’ll be much too hot here then.’
Middle-aged lady 1: ‘Well, I don’t suppose that’ll make much difference to me’.
Younger lady 1 seems to be doing mental arithmetic.
Middle-aged lady 1: ‘Of course, I won’t be here either, but my children and grandchildren will be.’
Doing what one wonders – scraping a subsistence existence from a desert something like present day Ethiopia, I should think.
Middle-aged lady 1. ‘Do you know, it’s such a shame, but the school are having a trip to China next year. I’d love to be able to help pay, but I’m a bit short of cash at the moment’.
Has there ever been a better argument for environmental taxes in general and whacking a tax on aviation fuel in particular?
Tax take off time at Taxation.co.uk. Chocks away here.
This morning I was joined at my table (oh so nice to be alone trying to think of some tax-related items of interest) by three ladies: two, shall we say, middle-aged, one younger and visibly pregnant.
Their conversation was about babies, and it transpired that middle-aged lady 1 had several children, middle-aged lady 2 had none, while younger lady 1 was expecting her first.
Following a reasonably anatomically detailed conversation relating to the difficulties of them and their friends in conceiving (la, la, la, can’t hear you!), the conversation – along with the train – took a sudden lurch.
Middle-aged lady 1: ‘Do you know, I read somewhere that by 2080 they will be growing vines at Hadrian’s Wall. But they won’t be in this part of the country (West Sussex). It’ll be much too hot here then.’
Middle-aged lady 1: ‘Well, I don’t suppose that’ll make much difference to me’.
Younger lady 1 seems to be doing mental arithmetic.
Middle-aged lady 1: ‘Of course, I won’t be here either, but my children and grandchildren will be.’
Doing what one wonders – scraping a subsistence existence from a desert something like present day Ethiopia, I should think.
Middle-aged lady 1. ‘Do you know, it’s such a shame, but the school are having a trip to China next year. I’d love to be able to help pay, but I’m a bit short of cash at the moment’.
Has there ever been a better argument for environmental taxes in general and whacking a tax on aviation fuel in particular?
Tax take off time at Taxation.co.uk. Chocks away here.
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