Comments on: TaxPayers Alliance accidentally show we need more eco-taxes

By: State Minimum Wage

State Minimum Wage — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:06:03 +0000

Very good article. I wouldn’t like to see a general cut on income tax and used to vote Lib Dem based on the penny in the pound policy.

By: Tom Chance

Tom Chance — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:25:41 +0000

I shall beware her wrath at work!

I wouldn’t like to see a general cut on income tax and used to vote Lib Dem based on the penny in the pound policy. But it strikes me that re-introducing a 10p tax band and reducing NI contributions could be part of a progressive shift to ease the burden on the poorest people who suffer very high marginal rates and to shift the burden from work to consumption.

By: David

David — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:04:37 +0000

Very good article Tom; but you’ll get in trouble saying things like: “So we should be putting more tax on carbon dioxide, and perhaps less on good stuff like work!” A ‘green tax switch’ is the policy of the Liberal Democrats and the Canadian Green Party , in both cases to take the lowest paid out of taxation – Jenny Jones doesn’t like it at all – she said “In their ‘green tax switch’ announced last September, they promised to “cut income tax and switch to green taxes on pollution instead”. No serious Greens would contemplate this.”

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