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Saturday, September 09, 2006
sTory soup.
Don't you just love those good old, down to earth Tory boys and there link with the common man. Spotted this in the paper yesterday.
"Tories to penalize pollutors with tax
Shadow chancellor George Osbourne has pledged that ordinary Britons would pay less tax under a Tory government - but those who damage the environment would pay more. 'I believe we should move some of the burden of taxation away from income and capital, and towards taxes on environmentally damaging behavior.' he said. 'I want to move to more effective and fair taxes on pollution."
Now in itself I see this as a great idea! Tax those with gas guzzling cars etc. But like most Tory policy there is always a catch, it is this part that gets me,
"I believe we should move some of the burden of taxation away from income and capital.."
So once again the richest of the population still wont actually be penalized, because what they will be paying out in there pollution tax will be a pittance compared with what they would be paying out on there income and capital tax bills if we had a decent sliding scale of taxation, and the poor schmo on minimum wage will still be paying there tax bill (which they can only just afford) and having to pay a new pollution tax as well.
personally I want to see a fair and effective sliding scale taxation on income and capital before people start adding new taxes. I'm not saying that we should all rush out and become socialists I think that if you have worked hard and made a mint then you are entitled to enjoy it, but I do believe that there needs to be a shift in the scale of taxation, lower income taxes are far to high while higher income taxes are a joke. If you earn £100,000 a year then a couple grand tax bill is squat but if you earn £14,000 a year then £300 a month is a big kick in the teeth.
