We were talking about taxes. Do you accept now that fuel duty is one of the most regressive taxes taking a considerably higher share of poor people's incomes than wealthier people's incomes… (View Post)

Even if that were correct (it is not!) now change that to percentage of income. 🤦‍♂️ 1/3rd in cash terms is a considerably higher percentage of a poor persons income than it is a wealthier person�… (View Post)

Its only meaningless if you are expecting the status quo to remain the case forever. It does not. Both because of primary and secondary legislation changing the law, and caselaw doing so too. Hence y… (View Post)

Except it isn't true. The incentive was never on the employer to do that. The incentive is on the employee who can get over ten grand per annum in benefits if they only do 16 hours and faces a r… (View Post)

Good. We keep saying Government should cut expenditure and that's an entirely appropriate cut to make. There is fat that can be cut still, it's just the fat that was a shibboleth to the pri… (View Post)