Attacks on Cameron
It's nice to see the Tory party self-destructing again, after all Labour's been through over the past few weeks.
Now we have right-wingers like John Redwood and Norman Tebbit banging on about tax cuts. Why do they want lower taxes to be part of Tory policy? Basically, because that's what the Tories have always argued. Like in the 2005 election. And the 2001 one. The fact the Tories lost both these elections seems to have escaped Messrs Redwood and Tebbit.
They come armed with some papers from Thatcherite think tanks - including one slightly confusing one from the Taxpayer's Alliance:
All the evidence shows that if you cut taxes, people work harder, you generate more growth and you get more money in the government’s coffers.
It was also argued that if tax rates were lowered, the super-rich would spend less time trying to evade paying tax. I'm sure it would, but don't evade paying tax in the first place, you slimy selfish creatures of flith! Especially when director's pay is up 28% this year - seven times the average wage increase.
The simple fact is that lower taxes means less schools and hospitals. It's time the Tebbits of this world stopped tub-thumping. Not that I mind a huge schism in the Tory party that much...
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