Found a blog that agrees with independence4wales on most things.
This is a recent article which ties in with a lot of what we say, here in an excerpt – Read the blog here
The term tax liberation day is bandied about a lot but I am not sure if people really comprehend what it means.
The oldholborn article links to a report detailing which countries have the highest taxes. And they say most countries are around 44%.
Personally I do not know where they get that number from.
Take the UK for example. Income tax starts at 20%, national insurance in 10%, VAT is 20%. So that is 50% for starters.
Then you have fuel duty, property taxes, inheritance/death taxes. Fuel duty on its own is around 10% of people’s income, so I think 44% is a bit kind.
In reality, in the UK, most people work until beginning of August (60% of the year) involuntarily for the government. Whoever says the welfare state is a good thing is completely clueless. How anyone can think they would be better off paying 60% of their income to the government is beyond me.
As regular readers will know, I detest the concept of involuntary taxation. I see it as theft with violence by the largest gang with the biggest guns – the Government. Certainly we can vote for whoever can assume the “right” the help themselves to the fruits of my labour or risked capital but with all democracies, my opinion only means something if everyone else agrees – as an individual, I am powerless.
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