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Exactly - he was only a shadow of it and was quite harmful enough  |
Gord was a curious old/new Labour hybrid. Statist instincts, but reformed enough to realise that bribing the middle classes, rather than the working class, was the means to remaining in power. He has put countless thousands of them on the public payroll, and he has hooked the lot of us on a nasty form of crystal meth called Tax Credits.
It's insane that the state should be subsidising households with an income of £50,000. Of course, they have been doing so for so many years that those households have made long-term budgetary decisions based around that cash.
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Ring fencing the NHS and paying for it through compulsory health insurance not general taxation.
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Not so sure about that - it could be regressive. How would you implement it?