Agree with all that, except 'many'. I doubt that the majority of folk who favour a higher percentage tax rate for the rich actually understand the maths, let alone understand the maths sufficiently to realise it is a way of redistributing wealth. Only a tiny fraction of labour lefties are...
Crikey. In the US it is an electoral college, and one that favours the rural voter (republican). I think it will be very close in both the US election and the EU referendum (even I, in my wildest drunken moments, get the occasional urge to vote 'leave', just for the merry hell of it, which is...
Flat rate taxes? Some on the left think they are unfair because everyone 'pays the same'. My brother (an English graduate from KCL) thinks this. It is total inumerate bollocks. I'm sick and tired of explaining that if everyone paid the same percentage tax, no exceptions or exemptipns, with the...