Incredible, the man’s actually said something sensible.
Abolish Inheritance Tax.
Stephen Byers Shocker!
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The rest of the Labour Party violently disagrees with him and ask where will the government get the £3.6 Billion from if Inheritance Tax is abolished. Now I know this is a bit radical, but how about cutting public spending? If my income drops then I cut back. It’s quite simple really. I’ve heard that increasing the inheritance threshold to £2 million would only cost £2 billion. How much has the war in Iraq cost so far? Can someone remind me?
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I can’t imagine for a second that he’s actually being sincere.
Shurely, as they suggest in the piece, this is merely some kind of goblin-destabilising tactic, what with the one-eyed monarch only recently having retrospecively clobbered IHT-dodging offshore trusts? -
or even retrospectively clobbered…
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As for the war in Iraq:
“At a Downing Street reception not long ago, a guest had the temerity to ask Tony Blair: ‘How do you sleep at night, knowing that you’ve been responsible for the deaths of 100,000 Iraqis?’
“The Prime Minister is said to have retorted: ‘I think you’ll find it’s closer to 50,000.”
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/08/346860.html
So that’s all right then?
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