Friday, April 29, 2005
Taxing our intelligence
So, Michael Howard comes to Wales and announces that a conservative government at Westminster would provide the cash for a council tax rebate for Welsh pensioners. His plan is that he will give the money to the Welsh Assembly Government and challenge Rhodri Morgan to implement the policy or explain to pensioners why they are losing out.
Putting aside the fact that he is just tinkering with the system and failing to address the real inequality in Council Tax (a local income tax will take a large number of pensioners out of taxation altogether), the big problem with Mr. Howard's latest promise is that it is not in the Welsh Conservative manifesto. In addition, the cost of this new pledge has not been included in their manifesto costings either. The Tory economic black hole is just growing bigger.
Putting aside the fact that he is just tinkering with the system and failing to address the real inequality in Council Tax (a local income tax will take a large number of pensioners out of taxation altogether), the big problem with Mr. Howard's latest promise is that it is not in the Welsh Conservative manifesto. In addition, the cost of this new pledge has not been included in their manifesto costings either. The Tory economic black hole is just growing bigger.
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Noted uberblogger Tom Coates has been taken to task about starting his entries with the word, 'So'. See here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/plasticbag/729874/
and
http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2000/09/notable_plasticbagorg_cliches.shtml
I suppose you are doing this deliberately...
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/plasticbag/729874/
and
http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2000/09/notable_plasticbagorg_cliches.shtml
I suppose you are doing this deliberately...
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