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Politics => Local Issues and Matters => Topic started by: stokoe on August 03, 2020, 08: PM

Title: Eat out to help out.
Post by: stokoe on August 03, 2020, 08: PM
Find it very strange businesses have been concerned with the past few months all closed etc, government gives them help and what happens, all the main footfall eating places in the town shut on a Monday.
Title: Re: Eat out to help out.
Post by: akarjl2 on August 04, 2020, 09: AM
furlough scheme?

Makes you wonder.
Title: Re: Eat out to help out.
Post by: Lucy Lass-Tick on August 04, 2020, 11: AM
Some pf the smaller places were closed on a Monday long before the furlough scheme. Suppose it was their day off after the weekend - & that there was little demand on a Monday so not worth paying staff, anyway.
Title: Re: Eat out to help out.
Post by: Land Phil on August 04, 2020, 02: PM
No such thing as a free lunch unless you are registered in a tax haven.

The £10 plus interest will be have to be paid back through the tax system.

Surely there are better ways to encourage the economy to get moving again.
Title: Re: Eat out to help out.
Post by: stokoe on August 04, 2020, 05: PM
If they were desperate they would be open surely.
Title: Re: Eat out to help out.
Post by: akarjl2 on August 04, 2020, 05: PM
Quote from: stokoe on August 04, 2020, 05: PM
If they were desperate they would be open surely.

Exactly
Title: Re: Eat out to help out.
Post by: diSme on August 04, 2020, 07: PM
Quote from: Land Phil on August 04, 2020, 02: PM
No such thing as a free lunch unless you are registered in a tax haven.

The £10 plus interest will be have to be paid back through the tax system.

Surely there are better ways to encourage the economy to get moving again.

I totally agree with this. It applies to all the handouts and payment breaks. The taxpayer will undoubtedly have to pay the piper