Nick Clegg has been posing posing as the taxpayer’s friend.
In just 3 years, real household incomes have fallen by some 5 per cent – one of the biggest squeezes since the 1950′s, since the records began. Household budgets are approaching a state of emergency and the government needs a rapid response.
If that wasn’t so shabby, it would be funny. Mr Clegg is a member of the government that deliberately decided to close the deficit by raising taxes rather than by spending less. He cannot escape responsibility by pretending to be in opposition.
We need the government – of which Mr Clegg is deputy leader – to start tackling Britain’s bloated State.
Since the Liberal Democrats are way off to the Left in British politics, presumably he doesn’t want that.
The proposed tax cuts … would be funded by new levies on the wealthy.
Ah yes, by tax increases then.
Mr Clegg is not the taxpayer’s friend. He is an old-fashioned Socialist who believes the government should grab more from the successful and give more to the idle.
But this is a Tory-led government after all. So it seems they too believe in raising taxes to pay for protecting the public sector.
They really are all the same. Only UKIP believe in low taxes and small government.
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It is all about a fair and just society. A concept few would argue against. We on the right have it as an aspiration as much as those on the left although those on the left will tell you that we do not. The difference between left and right is that each side has a different vision of what a fair and just society looks like and how best it is achieved. The evidence is abundant that the lefts methods and vision are seriously flawed as what has been achieved by them has lead to many serious problems economically, socially and politically. Economically with unsustainable costs, socially with lowering of standards, values and morals and politically with the erosion of democracy and expansion of government. The left has been able to impose it’s fair and just society model because it is an all encompassing one and time attractive where as the alternative is made of fragmented pieces sometimes at odds and with benefits that are not easily apparent and with time scales that are too long for most to want.
I agree with all of that. The additional issue is though that almost all our politicians and top civil servants are on the Left but lots of them pretend to be on the Right.
Clegg is a bit muddled here or more likely misquoted by the Torygraph.
He is reported as saying that he wants “taxes on the wealthy” what he actually means is “taxes on the rental value of land”, which is something diametrically opposite, and in which I wholeheartedly agree with him.
Maybe so, but the key point is that he is pretending to be in favour of low taxes overall when really he believes in high taxes.