Tax cutting appears to be the order of the day, with Cameron’s commitment to a “long-term tax reduction” swiftly followed by Clegg saying that he will fight against “excessive taxation”.
About bloody time!
It seems that Cameron is now satisfied that the Conservatives have been “decontaminated” enough to make any support for tax cutting in to a virtue, rather than the vice that a statist Labour have made it out to be over more than a decade.
The Lib Dems, on the other hand, appear to have finally realised that people want less tax - and so they decide to reverse all their previous tax policies and “principles” and jump on the tax-cutting bandwagon. Whoops, your poll-chasing is showing , Nick!
However, that two parties have now “come out” in favour of tax cuts cannot be anything but a good thing, as it puts pressure and the political emphasis on Labour to demonstrate why taxing and spending [and wasting] should be the way to go.
Just to be quire clear - we’re talking about cutting tax, not slashing it. State institutions will not be unfunded by a Conservative government. But useless iniatives and excessive money wasting will be curtailed - and the money left in the pockets of the people who earn it. Us, the taxpayers.
