Economic Illiterates

Well, count me out.

“People’s tolerance for austerity is drying up, even if that means higher taxes,” said Roger Harding, head of public attitudes at the National Centre for Social Research, which carried out the survey.

We don’t need to have higher taxes. What we need is for government to live within its means – that means not pissing our money up the wall on vanity projects, wasteful, unnecessary government departments, useless IT projects, NGO parasites and foreign aid. And that’s just for starters…

All I see here is people who have been taken in by the relentless propaganda machine of the BBC and the Guardian among others who peddle the poisonous notion that there is plenty of free money to be had and that all we have to do is tax the “rich” (people who have more than me).

It’s frightening just how ignorant people can be – not to mention lazy, wasteful, greedy, immoral and spiteful.

7 Comments

  1. Our survey says.
    Our survey of 3000 carefully picked and deeply grilled people says.
    Bullshit smells of lavender.

  2. “People’s tolerance for austerity is drying up, even if that means higher taxes”

    Omitting the crucial qualifier ‘…..higher taxes ON SOMEONE ELSE’

    No-one ever thinks they should pay higher taxes, they (probably rightly) think they pay far too much as it is. However they do rather like the idea of being the recipient of higher state spending, as long as someone else is doing the paying.

  3. Soaking the rich is never a good idea. Post Brexit, when we’ll need to be as competitive as possible just to stay afloat, it’ll be suicidal. Much easier for banks to persuade key employees to relocate when personal taxes are whacked up. Much easier for companies to make a decision about moving when corporation tax rates are no longer competitive.

    Of course, when this all happens it’ll be blamed on Brexit alone, not the socialists’ poor handling of it. This country is doomed.

  4. Revealed preferences: how many of those 48% voluntarily pay more taxes, as they can and should if they mean it?

  5. I think that it is quite worrying that lessons that were learned the hard way about the failures of socialism seem to have been so quickly forgotten. If people are finding that times are getting even a little hard, doesn’t it occur to any of them that things might not be quite as bad if they weren’t paying almost half of their income in tax? The stupid Tories think that they can win over the lefties by being left wing. The stupid lefties still see them as being evil Tories anyway and they are alienating their traditional supporters as well. If I wanted Labour style policies inflicted on the country I would vote Labour. I don’t, so what are my options going to be next time around?

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