Its all in the name
A supertax on high earners should be considered as part of Gordon Brown’s autumn fight-back, a minister says today. Ivan Lewis, writing in The Sunday Times, calls on the government to introduce a new economic package to bail out the hard-pressed middle classes – possibly paid for by new taxes on the rich. The health minister warns that urgent steps must be taken to protect the living standards of the “mainstream majority” of comfortably off voters who swept Labour to power in 1997.
Translation: We Nu Labour have ruthlessly & without compunction taxed the living daylights out of Blighty’s middles classes to the point that anyone with any drive or initative, devotes large proportions of each day trying to work out how to leave the country.
We now want to tax the living daylights out of the richest (& most economically mobile) portion of society so that they will leave the country as well.
The net result will be a country composed on chavs, dole moles, economically inactive migrants & social security junkies – in fact anyone that depends upon the State for a living…because that’s the way that we socialists like it.
In fact dear readers the clue is the Minister for Health’s christian name. Nuff said?
Comments
It is a weird world where those at the top of the tree pay little or no tax at all whereas those in the midddle or bottom pay are screwed. I understand the economics and being a few years older than Mr FM experienced paying 60% odd in income tax. But having watched and help structure the tax avoidance available to the few not the many, I think it has gone too far.
Posted by: bill | August 18, 2008 9:30 AM
Come the glorious day...
Posted by: Ratty | August 18, 2008 1:39 PM
If you get to the states and want to start up a business, I suggest North Carolina or Texas as the most business friendly states. Avoid the Peoples Republics of Massachusets, New York, California, Conneticut, and Michigan.
Posted by: toad | August 18, 2008 4:18 PM
Also avoid Maryland. If you seek proximity to D.C., Virginia is preferable.
Posted by: Bomber Harris | August 18, 2008 4:25 PM
I think you mean to refer to the nasty little twat's communist name.
Posted by: John K | August 19, 2008 2:14 PM