Comments on: 50p Tax Rate: Is Byers right?

By: The 50p tax rate refugees: let ‘em leave! | ToUChstone blog: A public policy blog from the TUC

Mon, 11 May 2009 22:48:59 +0000

[...] I’ve said elsewhere, the era of turbo-charged finance capital is over. The City will need to radically reinvent [...]

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:00:17 +0000

Ah yes the youth training programs in which people in my area go to dead end employers who have no interest except in cheap labour and you train how to cook a burger, yes thats the one’s.

By: Directors savage higher rate tax: what would they have said to a minimum tax? | ToUChstone blog: A public policy blog from the TUC

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:14:40 +0000

[...] mild increases in tax for the very rich were among the most popular bits of the budget and, as Adam points out, almost exactly pay the costs of providing the job or training guarantee for the young [...]

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 06:56:27 +0000

Elections are coming, vote New labour we tax the rich. oops and the poor.

By: Charlie Marks

Charlie Marks — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:43:35 +0000

Byers is no doubt influenced in his views by his personal situation. I imagine that like the other former cabinet ministers of his ilk, he’ll have one or two cushy non-jobs on the side with companies looking for political influence – and will actually be paying the new top tax rate.