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I mean that's literally the governments job. Without taxes we wouldn't have a government so that sentence makes literally no sense
My dear old thing, as we have established to everyone’s satisfaction but yours, there is a large and obvious difference between the Government doing it - with His Majesty’s Revenue & Customs at their right hand - indeed the entirety of the Civil Service - and JonnyOnTheInternet doing it.
Do you understand?
If you do, we can move on to discuss how Tax Policy is not based solely what people can afford to pay, but a multitude of other issues, such has lobbying, international competition and even nudge theory - but it’s a dry topic and unfortunately one of us could come out of it looking a bit stupid.
All told it’s probably best if you smash that down arrow, and move on. But it’s up to you.
Right but it is them doing it so it's okay then