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Originally Posted by MovedGoalPosts
Income tax will place the majority of the burden on the semi professionals, managers and similar supposedly "high income" earners (although at current levels high income is not in fact that high - it's a comfortable level but not that comfortable). These are already heavily and possibly disproportionatley burdened by taxation, especially as such people will rarely, if ever, be entitled to any form of income suppport or other concessions. Meanwhile many of these "high income" earners do not in fact live in the larger houses for areas, as they could not afford to do so. Thus the tax burden could jump massively for some.
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It's a good point, but I think a large proportion of that has been due to Gordon Brown's stealth taxes, ie doing everything possible to keep the revenue coming in (raising NI, taxing small business dividends etc) whilst avoiding putting up Income Tax because Labour have got themselves in a stupid "bidding war" with the Tories over who can go the longest before blinking and saying they'll put tax up.
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The Liberal democrats answer is not a good one IMO. They have already said they will raise general income tax levels to pay for their plans. Now they will further penalise a large sector of the population by doubling up with a local income tax.
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But at least they're being *honest* about it and I think that's what a lot of people want because they're fed up with the other two parties trying to hood-wink them.
Surveys have shown that a lot of people would agree with eg an extra penny on income tax if the money was ring-fenced to target education, so putting up taxes is not necessarily a bad thing.