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Originally Posted by MovedGoalPosts
for a local income tax scheme, would there be sufficiently more gainers than loosers to enable the Lib Dems to get away with the change or turn it into a hot potatoe. Would the loosers be sufficiently many and aggrieved to create enough noise that the policy would become unworkable, much like the Poll Tax?
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IMO there could be more gainers than losers (although that does, of course, depend on the level the tax is set at) because there are a lot of pensioners and low income families who will see this as a benefit to them.
The question then becomes what the charge will be for "middle England" families, ie those who are above the benefit levels, but not "big earners" and whether they will see a reduction in their tax bills from Gordon's Stealth Taxes.