Quote Originally Posted by ragingpup View Post
Yes, tax cuts for the wealthy are rarely seen as ‘extreme’, but maybe if you look at how we compare with nearby competing countries. Corporation tax: Germany 30%, France 35%, Italy 29%, Netherlands 25%, Portugal 32%, Spain 35%, Norway 23%, Sweden 22%, UK 19% and with further commitments from the Conservatives to cut this further towards the Irish 12.5%. What would you consider to be extreme?

Likewise, Boris pledged to raise the higher tax threshold from 40k to 80k to benefit the wealthiest 10% at a cost to the public of 10 billion. Is that extreme? If not, what does count as extreme in your book re: tax cuts?

No deal? Yes extreme, and hope that Boris steers us clear from this as there is clearly no democratic manadate looking at how the Brexit Party is tailing off and falling behind Johnson’s deal.

Of course I don’t have definitive on this, but as always on MM I think it worthwhile to offer counter arguments to the pro-conservative majority on here, and the way that many Labour policies are very easily branded extremist whilst the Tories get an easy ride. Just challenging is all and no doubt will get pelters for trying to ‘leftie lecture‘ everyone despite being in the minority opinion. Interesting topic.
Corporation tax has consistently been around 30% since the late 1980s but since 2010 has been slashed down to 17%, all at a time when the country was having to endure "austerity" as a result of having to bail out the banks. We were all supposedly "tightening our belts". In reality, the poorest in society were having to carry the can with the richest top few percent only increasing their wealth further.

Personally, I find this iniquitous and will vote for the party who will best try to redress the balance. Folk can bang on about "politics of envy" but it's nothing to do with that. It's all about fairness.