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I have an idea:
Why not try closing the intentional tax loopholes that allow massive companies to offshore profits before they're taxed on them?
The answer is because it's the same loopholes that the MPs use to offshore our taxes that they've siphoned into their own pockets.
The UK actually agreed to shoot itself in the face with Brexit to keep those tax loopholes
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/apr/07/david-cameron-offshore-trusts-eu-tax-crackdown-2013
Rat face and melon head are just a few of the vermin in the Tories, yet the UK public gobble their shit up regardless
this is 100% a scheme to fuck the labour party who are likely to win the next election. It will force them to either immediately raise taxes on working people to revert the tax, take on more debt to keep the tax but restore the benefits, or abandon the poor and keep the tax cut as is.
it’s using poor, disabled, single parents and other vulnerable members of society as political cannon fodder and it’s fucking disgusting, but sadly par for the course with this government.
Ah, I see, cut income tax just before a general election despite having literally years to do so prior, just so Labour will be forced to find extra income elsewhere or revert the tax cut in some form when they get in power. Cynical as usual.
He agrees with Truss on what needs to be done just argues with her methodology. Of course we can't borrow from the markets to pay for tax cuts... we must take it out of the mouths of poor people.
The thing that boils my piss is that he knows that loads of dumbfucks, many of them on benefits themselves, will agree with the proposition because they hate their neighbours who have no visible means of support but have the temerity to own a big tv.
I spent Christmas in London...the amount of Bentleys Lamborghinis and absurd wealth and this guy wants to make it harder to be poor‽ Just wow.
Have you seen the poor though? No. So remove all benefits.
he wants to cut taxes for working people further this year, possibly cutting welfare payments to fund it.
Hmm, seen this before.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
The prime minister said on Sunday his priority before the budget in March would be further tax cuts, which he said would entail stricter controls on public spending and benefits.
The chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, announced at his autumn statement in November that hundreds of thousands of people would have to look for work they could do from home or face having their benefits cut by nearly £5,000 a year.
But on Sunday the prime minister defended the cuts, saying they were part of a wider plan to significantly reduce the number of people claiming those benefits.
On Friday the former Tory minister Chris Skidmore said he would quit as an MP in protest at the government’s plans to issue more oil and gas licences in the North Sea, triggering a byelection in his Kingswood seat.
A third could take place in Blackpool South, where the Conservative MP Scott Benton is fighting a lengthy suspension from parliament after being found to have breached lobbying rules.
As well as significant tax cuts, many in his party want to toughen up his bill to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda before it comes back to the Commons for another vote.
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