Thursday, September 16, 2010

Taxation: the reality.

"It is certainly true that too many people at the lower end of the income scale have been dragged into the taxman's net in recent years; but the problem for any Government is that if it wants to raise a lot of tax, it has to tax a lot of people. The super-rich are too few (and too internationally mobile) to keep public expenditure at the levels they currently are – or anything like it."

Dominic Lawson - The Independent.

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