The Taxpayers' Lament

There are so many ways in which taxpayers' money is misspent. Why are taxpayers paying at least £113million a year to trades unions? Why are the unions then allowed to use that money to fund the Labour party? Why is a strike allowed where less than 50% of the members of a trade union fail to take part in the strike ballot? Why do we have so many public servants? Of what possible use are they? Why are taxpayers paying so much to the EU? Why did Blair agree to a reduction in our rebate when he must have known that the CAP was never going to be reformed? Why do taxpayers have to support the BBC which mocks a good percentage of those who do by insulting not only their intelligence with sanctimonious rubbish but by feeding them a constant diet of left wing bias? Why are taxpayers being made to pay ridiculous sums of money to satisfy the whims of global warming claimants? Why are taxpayers being made to pay for grandiose overseas aid programmes? Why are we following a deficit reduction line which will cost taxpayers significant revenue when we could be reducing our exposure by following a more Icelandic path back to fiscal health? Why are we not reducing both jobs and pensions of the idle, pampered public sector? Why are we supporting the banks? Why are the nationalised banks not being split into bits and the bits sold to the public in order to encourage more competition? Why not reduce stamp duty or abolish it altogether? Why not reduce VAT, both the 40% and the 50% tax rates and corporation tax? Why not introduce real competition in the NHS by splitting it up and selling off the bits?