I completely agree. I am not saying no tax rises at all. I am saying that tax rises have to be prudently applied, and this Conservative Government definitely apply that principle, as we are seeing when it comes to income tax. Let us look at why people work. They go to work because they want to preserve the amount of money that is not taxed. It is the post-tax amount, not the pre-tax amount, that we all work for. Increasing the tax rate reduces the amount that people have available for themselves and decreases the amount available to be taxed.
Finance (No. 2) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Suella Braverman
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 18 April 2017.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Finance (No. 2) Bill.
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