While the British left is buried in factional debate, Reform is rapidly securing a foothold in former socialist heartlands across the country — paving the way for a nightmarish far-right takeover of the British state.
Wut. Poor people spend more of their money so have to pay a higher proportion of their income in things subject to vat.
You can raise far more money from taxes than what a set out, but it involves taxing “ordinary people” more. This is exactly the current debate in the UK. The point is, if you want to raise a lot of money to truly solve poverty, you can’t just tax the very rich; you also have to tax the merely comfortable.
I actually agree that this is probably the right thing to do, but it’s extremely unpopular, because the merely comfortable are taxed quite highly by historic UK standards.
Wut. Poor people spend more of their money so have to pay a higher proportion of their income in things subject to vat.
You can raise far more money from taxes than what a set out, but it involves taxing “ordinary people” more. This is exactly the current debate in the UK. The point is, if you want to raise a lot of money to truly solve poverty, you can’t just tax the very rich; you also have to tax the merely comfortable.
I actually agree that this is probably the right thing to do, but it’s extremely unpopular, because the merely comfortable are taxed quite highly by historic UK standards.