FIRST TIME BUYERS STRIKE....sign the petition

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Can we also have a strike to force down petrol/diesel prices as well, please? ;-) They've been creeping up far too quickly recently...

Oh yeh, BTW - I fancy a nice new shiny car soon, but all the good ones are just sooooo expensive - can you do something about that for me too? Thanks very much!!

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Signed by me also.

Tim wrote: ........................

Come back when you're old enough to drive Timmy.

If you're giving away free money, I'll have some too.

On a serious note, though, asking the government to avoid meddling in the free market is like asking (too many politically incorrect similes come to mind)...

First time buyers can't enter the market, because they can't afford to. Its not like they can refuse to join in by striking, they just can't enter the market if its really as bad as they say it is.

Plus, they can't refuse "to enter the market _again_" by virtue of being first timers : )

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Nothing more mature to say? Obviously, your petition can't be that serious....

BTW - I've been driving for many decades now!

Been done. And successfully too. Maybe time for another....

The government isn't propping up the cost of nice new shiny cars by subsiding purchases.

They can if Gordon buys part of the house for them.

No doubt if they still refused to join in, Gordon'll have rules to coerce them into, er, I mean, make them reconsider the positive financial viability of the proposition

What was it you said earlier Tim....

" > Oh yeh, BTW - I fancy a nice new shiny car soon, but all the good ones are

Yeh very mature comment from you there Tim

Thats right Tim

"Andy Pandy" wrote

You're right - they're not propping them up by subsidising purchases, they're doing it with high car taxes instead. Your point is??

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How is that comment any less mature than your own comment, that the government should help reduce the prices of houses? All I did was change the asset being commented on ...

Which reduces the required tax take from elsewhere. Using taxpayers money to prop up the housing market increases the required tax take from elsewhere.

I don't want my taxes wasted propping up the housing market.

"Andy Pandy" wrote

... although it *does* increase the tax-take in stamp duty, so it's not all required from elsewhere!

Also, if the govt keeps their equity in the houses for long enough (on average across all the houses involved), it's likely to return more than they put into it (ie it's just an investment, not an expenditure).

"Andy Pandy" wrote

I might not want my taxes "wasted" on things that I'm not interested in / don't use -- does that mean the govt should stop spending in the areas I don't want??!