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How do we get fairer tax?

There has been a lot of pressure on George Osbourne to come clean on the policies he intends to implement in the increasingly unlikely event that we have stand alone Tory Government. He seems to want the public to trust him and elect a Tory government, but doesn't seem to trust us to elect the Tories if he tells us what he plans. Perhaps he has good reason to have such fears since it is possible that he might have some plans and he may know those plans may alarm ordinary voters. Even if he does make a promise can we trust such promises? After all Margaret Thatcher made a clear promise not to double VAT in 1979 and she didn't. She increased it from 8% to 15%, which was not quite double. That decision triggered rampant inflation.

29 Mar 2010
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