From: Robert Shiels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 10:24 AM
> I've always been pretty right wing, and as I get older I'm getting worse
:-)
> My prediction is that Labour will win again (a no-brainer I know), and
that
> the Conservatives will elect a new leader. Over the next 4 years, Labour
> will fail to deliver their promises yet again, and the country will swing
> back to the party of low taxes, who will be re-elected in 2006. I've been
on
> an NHS waiting list since before Christmas actually, Labour isn't working
> for me.
Here's a pretty fundamental issue. Why do so many people seem to think that
low taxes are good? Isn't it obvious to people that in order for the country
to have a reasonable level of services and infrastructure, then it needs to
be paid for?
And when they talk about taxes, they only ever mean Income Tax. As long as
that goes down, everyone's happy. Both parties over the last 20 years have
made it a priority to lower income tax, but they can only do so by raising
other taxes. It's just a question of juggling a) which sectors of society
get to may more or less tax and b) whether you pay it on money you earn or
money you spend.
The money has to be raised somehow.
> Thinking about it though, most of LondonPM seem left-wing to me too, but
> I've put that down to the fact that most are quite young. I am reminded
of:
>
> "If a man is not a socialist by the time he is twenty, he has no heart.
> If he is not a conservative by the time he is 40, he has no brain."
> -----Winston Churchill
>
> discuss :-)
I'm one of the oldest members of london.pm and (I hope) I'm one of the most
left-wing. I became pretty apolitical in my late 20s, but now I find myself
getting more and more left-wing again.
Oh, and Churchill was an arsehole. As the population worked out in the 1945
General Election. Anyone responding with nonsense about him winning the
second world war will be given a history lesson :)
Dave...
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