Of course, when asked about tax rises, the people who are all for it really mean tax rises for “other people” or “the rich” not themselves naturally.
A majority of people in Britain support tax rises as a way of funding the NHS, a poll suggests.
The Ipsos MORI survey of nearly 1,800 people for the Health Foundation think tank found 85% thought the NHS should be protected from cuts – significantly more than other public services.
When presented with a range of options setting out how that could be achieved, 59% said they supported tax rises.
Sigh… there are some cretins out there… What happened to cutting back on waste? Stripping out unnecessary layers of management, reducing government spending on frippery? There are whole swathes of activity that the state indulges in that could be removed and we could efficiently fund the health service without cutting back on essential services. But, no, the hard of thinking always come back to the same tired rhetoric – raising taxes and those who will be squeezed are always “the rich” which translated means “has more than me”. Again we see the politics of envy and spite. And again, the idiots who support it will eventually find that it is their wallets being arse raped to pay for state largesse. And, no, the NHS will not improve, for the state will merely waste money in the way it always has and always will.
“What happened to cutting back on waste? Stripping out unnecessary layers of management, reducing government spending on frippery? ”
It’s simple – they’re never seen as options in surveys because they’re not answers they want to promote.
Tis always a tax on the industrious and hard working middle class. The work shy and feckless are exempt as are the genuine ‘rich’. Makes me want to burn stuff.
Surely you can’t mean people like St Bono of U2, who exhorts us to pay more tax, give all our money whilst moving his affairs to The Netherlands for tax mitigation.
Of course claimants are always in favour of higher taxes – well, at least until they find a job…
Ditto Slebs & Luvvies; whilst generally indulging in so many creative & spurious schemes which are evasion, not avoidance.
What happens when they run out of ‘rich’ people? No, no, don’t tell me, the bar for ‘rich’ will drop to include the modestly well off, thence to anyone with even vaguely liquid assets.
All the while, the really rich people with clever accountants will shuffle their money around and surprise, surprise, still be calling for more taxation. Gosh, is that my cynicism? I knew I’d put it down somewhere….
They ran out of rich people decades ago, if not a century. Income taxes started out on ‘the rich’ and the average working man paid nothing. Then bit by bit the rates rose, and the threshold to qualify to pay it dropped at the same time, until the situation we see today where we have the vision of the State simultaneously with one hand decreeing that paying someone below £6.70.hr for their labour is legally and morally wrong, and with the other hand demanding the very same person pay tax at approx 33% on their marginal income above £10.6k.
We have reached peak income tax on the wealthy. If rates are raised at the top of the scale the people there (and their incomes) will leave and no more revenue will accrue (indeed it would probably mean a drop in revenue due to reduced economic activity), and we can go no further down the scale – we already tax those on minimum wages. The only people left to tax more are those in the broad middle – minimum wage to £50k ish. Thats the only place extra revenue can possibly be found.
So if ‘The Public’ want more spending on X or Y, there’s only one place thats money is coming from, and that’s their pockets, no-one elses.
An Ipsos Mori poll… chartered by another faux-charity-thinktank to support the lobbying it exists for the sole purpose of.
Who would have thought the results eh?