{"id":10833,"date":"2011-07-02T19:18:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-02T18:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=10833"},"modified":"2011-07-02T19:18:40","modified_gmt":"2011-07-02T18:18:40","slug":"we-had-a-50-tax-rate-in-the-last-year-and-fewer-people-emigrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/07\/02\/we-had-a-50-tax-rate-in-the-last-year-and-fewer-people-emigrated\/","title":{"rendered":"We had a 50% tax rate in the last year and fewer people emigrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest ONS data on pop[ulation growth revealed the extraordinary fact that now we have a 50% tax rate in the UK <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/uk-population-growing-at-its-fastest-rate-for-a-half-a-century-2305202.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span>fewer people emigrated.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why is that?<\/p>\n<p>Certainly it doesn't suggest the rich are leaving in greater numbers.<\/p>\n<p><span>Maybe it does suggest people like a more equal society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And people came here in record numbers.<\/p>\n<p>The myth that tax drives people away is, well, just a myth.<\/p>\n<p><span>So' like the rumour of fairies at the\u00a0bottom\u00a0of the garden shall we treat it as a load of old baloney -\u00a0because\u00a0that is what it is?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest ONS data on pop[ulation growth revealed the extraordinary fact that now we have a 50% tax rate in the UK fewer people emigrated.<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/07\/02\/we-had-a-50-tax-rate-in-the-last-year-and-fewer-people-emigrated\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}