Probably never a ‘right time for tax rises but yes, having this come along in the midst of other hikes is especially brutal.
BoJo trying to justify it is some ‘amusing’ bullshit. “necessary, fair and responsible” my arse.
‘Wrong time’ suggests there’s ever a right time for us to pay more taxes to support the lifestyles of the super wealthy. I’ll remind you of what you said to get elected Keir:
**1. Economic justice**
**Increase income tax for the top 5% of earners, reverse the Tories’ cuts in corporation tax and clamp down on tax avoidance, particularly of large corporations. No stepping back from our core principles.**
Charge NI on incomes from private pensions, meaning, let rich pensioners pay for poorer pensioners. Enough money raised to fund NHS and social care and then some. Instead we decided to make poor pensioners and workers to fund lifestyles of rich pensioners.
Personally, I think Starmer is in opposition to these measures only because he is the opposition; I doubt he would have a realistic solution other than more ‘quantitate easing’, or hiding it in PFI so another party can take the fall later (which is causing all of this mess as we have to pay somewhere down the line).
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Probably never a ‘right time for tax rises but yes, having this come along in the midst of other hikes is especially brutal.
BoJo trying to justify it is some ‘amusing’ bullshit. “necessary, fair and responsible” my arse.
‘Wrong time’ suggests there’s ever a right time for us to pay more taxes to support the lifestyles of the super wealthy. I’ll remind you of what you said to get elected Keir:
**1. Economic justice**
**Increase income tax for the top 5% of earners, reverse the Tories’ cuts in corporation tax and clamp down on tax avoidance, particularly of large corporations. No stepping back from our core principles.**
Charge NI on incomes from private pensions, meaning, let rich pensioners pay for poorer pensioners. Enough money raised to fund NHS and social care and then some. Instead we decided to make poor pensioners and workers to fund lifestyles of rich pensioners.
Personally, I think Starmer is in opposition to these measures only because he is the opposition; I doubt he would have a realistic solution other than more ‘quantitate easing’, or hiding it in PFI so another party can take the fall later (which is causing all of this mess as we have to pay somewhere down the line).