What do people in Birmingham think of the new Budget?

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We asked people in Birmingham for their reaction to the government’s latest Budget. Do they think it helps ordinary families and workers, or are the measures too little, too late? Where do they believe more money should be spent or saved?

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00:00Right, he's always got a thought.

00:02Yeah, mostly it's not surprising.

00:05The only bit that I'm really completely fox by is the EV mileage tax.

00:10I mean that's £300 a year on a £10,000

00:14which is 3p a mile on an EV, a mile and a half on a plug-in hybrid.

00:19And I don't understand those numbers either.

00:22I think that the limitation on the threshold at which taxes pay

00:27should at least reflect the amount that people can earn on their state pension.

00:34So it should never be taxed.

00:36The state pension should never be taxed.

00:38I think yet again it's clear that the budget is set out just to catch people out,

00:43to end up with people spending more money than they've actually got.

00:46And it's just typical isn't it?

00:48Coming up to Christmas we find out that we're going to be taxed more,

00:51lose money, electric cars, everybody pushes for them.

00:54get an electric car, save the planet and all of a sudden you get taxed on that as well.

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