Quote Originally Posted by Idaho View Post
Sorry but if you really think that unemployment can be reversed by a few tax breaks for start ups and the odd grant, you're living in cloud cuckoo land.
And if you think that the defecit can be cleared without brutal restructuring of the Public Sector you're considerably worse off.

Do you know what the best taxt rise really was? VAT, why you ask?

The answer is that it is unavoidable for both rich and poor, but it taxes spending rather than earnings, thus discouraging the rich from putting their money into things like capital, because no matter how they earn their money, when they spend it they will pay.