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Labour's Death Tax
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When did working class families, (who worked all their lives, struggled to buy their houses, joined their company's pension scheme, and then through their careful budgeting still had a little to put aside for a rainy day), suddenly become Middle-Class?
Well according to this report they think they have, and the likes of David Blunkett has called for Ed Miliband and the Labour Party to bring back the ‘Death Tax’.
When did working class families, (who worked all their lives, struggled to buy their houses, joined their company's pension scheme, and then through their careful budgeting still had a little to put aside for a rainy day), suddenly become Middle-Class?
Well according to this report they think they have, and the likes of David Blunkett has called for Ed Miliband and the Labour Party to bring back the ‘Death Tax’.
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Blunkett is not even fighting the election.
Labour Party policy is debated and approved at the Party Conference in September. Just because one ex-Minister has said he likes an idea at a non-Labour Party event does not mean Miliband or the Party will adpot it. The reason Blunkett and the rest of the Blairites are out in limbo is because they are yesterdays men with old ideas that the electorate rejected 5 years ago.
It is a very pathetic example of pre-election scaremongering by an increasingly desperate Tory Press.
Labour Party policy is debated and approved at the Party Conference in September. Just because one ex-Minister has said he likes an idea at a non-Labour Party event does not mean Miliband or the Party will adpot it. The reason Blunkett and the rest of the Blairites are out in limbo is because they are yesterdays men with old ideas that the electorate rejected 5 years ago.
It is a very pathetic example of pre-election scaremongering by an increasingly desperate Tory Press.
Gromit, people work hard all their lives and if they manage to accumulate some wealth out of their already highly taxed existance then frankly they should not face further tax in death. It's gets ever more futile to work hard and pay for yourself, the feckless get everything free those of us that provide for ourselves and indeed the feckless get punished in life and in death. Even you must see that is fundamentally wrong.
// 'd say people who've worked hard all their lives have paid their fair share in taxes. //
I agree, they have. It is not they who will be taxed though is it. It is whoever gets the windfall. I repeat, no one is going to give up earning money in their working lives and make themselves deliberately poorer bcause of duty that might be paid when they are dead.
I agree, they have. It is not they who will be taxed though is it. It is whoever gets the windfall. I repeat, no one is going to give up earning money in their working lives and make themselves deliberately poorer bcause of duty that might be paid when they are dead.
I might just clarify that I do not agree with the death duty as defined by Blunkett. It will be very unpopular and will not raise that much money.
I am not agreeing with Blunkett, I am disagreeing with those saying hard workers will just give up because of it and prosperity (presuming they mean the economy) will falter as a result. Utter bunkum.
I am not agreeing with Blunkett, I am disagreeing with those saying hard workers will just give up because of it and prosperity (presuming they mean the economy) will falter as a result. Utter bunkum.
