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Originally Posted by Flyboy
I have not mentioned any political party, others have done that, whilst trying to defend this plan. This is less to do with party politics than it does with knee-jerk, ill-considered badly planned and unfair policies
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It is odd the standards you seem to be applying here. I don't recall these standards being applied to the nearly 180 tax rises in the previous 13 years. Must just be me being inattentive
Regardless this isn't knee-jerk, it's obviously been considered, it's not ill-considered either. As many have said this policy is to be as fair as possible while reducing deficit. From that angle it is perfectly well considered. To make further effort to make it fairer would have made it pointless as the means testing would have been expensive.
It's politically unpopular, no-one likes having money taken from them, but it's necessary. With that in mind I
at it and get on with things. Your prerogative to try and pick holes in it, however there are
many things that you could have picked holes in but have chosen not to - any wonder party politics is raised as an issue?