Are the Tories trying to stop poor people having a say in public services because they stopped the low-paid from paying tax?

Last Updated: February 18, 2021By Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

Some of us saw this coming.

If you’ve seen the video clip in which Richard Murphy explains how money works, you’ll know that people who pay tax are more likely to vote – they feel they have more of an interest in it.

(Of course, tax is about returning money the government has created, in order to avoid catastrophic inflation – and not about giving the government the money it needs in order to provide public services, but let’s not complicate matters by going into that.)

But the Tories have spent the last 11 years raising the earnings threshold at which people pay tax, claiming this as a sign of their generosity.

Oh really? Watch the video and consider the comment by Paul Sweeney.

It seems to This Writer that, through no fault of their own, attempts are being made to deny more than 20 million people the right to say which services the government funds. Presumably the next step is to say, if you don’t pay tax, you don’t get to vote.

We’re on a very slippery slope, here.

And a hypocritical one.

You’ll notice that nobody is saying you shouldn’t have a say if you don’t pay all the tax for which you should be liable – for example, because you engage in tax avoidance.

So super-rich tax avoiders will be able to vote/help decide which public services are funded or whether they get funded at all – despite the fact that most of them don’t need the most expensive of those services. Logically, they’ll say those are the ones to get the axe.

Meanwhile, the super-poor – who are now prevented from paying tax, either because they are on benefits or their wages have been pushed into the dirt by Tory employers – may be denied that right.

It should not even be a subject for discussion.

The qualification for voting – and therefore for helping decide how public money is spent – is UK citizenship because we all live here and we are all affected by the decisions the government makes.

Oh, and of course Income Tax is not the only tax that people pay.

So to rule people out of the process because they have been priced out of paying just one of the UK’s many taxes would be unfair in the extreme – and Emma Barnett was talking out of her rear end.

What a shame that’s such a good description of our current Tory government.

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3 Comments

  1. Roland Laycock February 18, 2021 at 11:09 am - Reply

    Greg begins six months of chemotherapy today. This is a daunting prospect after six months of last year taken up with the same. I know the drill, I know what I need to do on these days as his carer.
    Today was slightly different though. In between the collection of packages from the chemist, organising future blood tests and watching Greg puking and shivering in a chair as the drugs take hold, I also had to find the finance department because we are having to pay for the cancer drug Avastin.
    They were very confused; people don’t just rock up and pay for cancer treatment. You either have what is available on the NHS or you don’t have it, that’s the deal for most people.
    I was asked if this was the amount for the full treatment I explained no, this is for one round, I would be coming back in three weeks to pay another £1860.83 and would continue to do this every three weeks for six months. They were horrified.
    This is the reality of cancer care and the NHS. We are in the exceptional position to be able to pay for this because of the unprecedented generosity of people but ours is not the usual situation. This is happening right now. Today. Imagine having to know that you couldn’t have a drug that would either save your life or buy you more time with loved ones because of money. That’s the deal.
    Our NHS is more than a British institution or a bastion of ideals, its life and death. It’s the life of my partner and the father of my babies. Actively fight for this because we won’t have another chance ❤

  2. david February 19, 2021 at 3:58 am - Reply

    ooh please tell me that if they end up stopping me voting that I can opt out of VAT and import duty for items I can’t get in the UK?

    • Mike Sivier February 19, 2021 at 2:43 pm - Reply

      That would be far too much like fairness for your modern Tory government.

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