It’s not a new idea; our tax system used to tax all income equally from 1988 to 1998, when Nigel Lawson was Chancellor.
Lawson resigned in 1989. Which is about all we need to know about Unherd really.
It’s not a new idea; our tax system used to tax all income equally from 1988 to 1998, when Nigel Lawson was Chancellor.
Lawson resigned in 1989. Which is about all we need to know about Unherd really.
And Labour won by a gigantic majority in 1997, so unlikely they went for a coalition cabinet in 1998.
Written by 18 year old ignorant student trots?
The famed “teenage scribblers” write an article about the man who coined the terminology
I think I get it. The law should prohibit work that springs from anyone’s private idea of “getting ahead” – or even “getting” anything,
No, work should be only for people to maintain a subsistence- level life.
“Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.”
But . . . hasn’t that already been tried?
Rob
Chairman of the IPPR in concert with the Conservative MP for Weston Super Mare are the proclaimed authors… somebody might be taking the piss?
I just saw the IPPR Commission on Economic Justice – unfortunately I cannot unsee it… but my … they are up themselves in quite grandiose fashion.
“all income should be taxed the same”
A flat tax? Bring it on!
To be fair, I have some sympathy for the idea of charging National Insurance on pensions. But only until I reach pensionable age.
“our tax system used to tax all income equally”: pah! Schedule A was scrapped in 1963. And of course the existence of different income tax bands itself makes a mockery of the statement, at least in its ripped-out-of-context form. Then again, PEPs, TESSAs, pensions, etc, etc.
I know someone who owns so many Premium Bonds that he gets a roughly steady monthly income in small prizes. All untaxed, of course, as they have been since 1956.
Must be a tiny income: http://monevator.com/are-premium-bonds-a-good-investment/
“Must be a tiny income”: a tickle over 1% p.a. so quite OK in the present interest rate environment.
You didn’t have to be rich to get your income from dividends. Not if you had a ltd company of whatever size, or shares in one.
Lefties ignorance of dates and numbers is endemic.
BBC Question Time 25 Jan 2018
WikiP
The secret is out: “Michael Forsyth was Health Secretary in Blair’s Labour Gov’t” says Green MSP :facepalm
Did the Scotch people want to build the hospital?
Yes, but with the English paying for it. I believe that is how it works…
“Did the Scotch people want to build the hospital?”
Don’t know, but more relevant is most Edinburgh people did not – replace city centre hospital with one in the middle of nowhere.