{"id":28871,"date":"2015-04-29T09:34:34","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T08:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=28871"},"modified":"2015-04-29T09:34:34","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T08:34:34","slug":"what-is-tax-for-a-lesson-for-david-cameron-in-six-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/04\/29\/what-is-tax-for-a-lesson-for-david-cameron-in-six-tweets\/","title":{"rendered":"What is tax for? A lesson for David Cameron in six tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In<a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/10\/11\/what-is-tax-for-an-answer-in-six-tweets\/\" target=\"_blank\"> 2012 I was asked to\u00a0explain<\/a> what tax was for in six tweets.\u00a0This is what I wrote. In <a title=\"Cameron\u2019s promised law against tax increases is reckless, irresponsible, stupid and deeply misleading\" href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/04\/29\/camerons-promised-law-against-tax-increases-is-reckless-irresponsible-stupid-and-deeply-misleading\/\">view of his announcement on tax this morning<\/a> I think David Cameron needs to take note:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-11-at-11.15.51.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17748\" title=\"Screen shot 2012-10-11 at 11.15.51\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-11-at-11.15.51.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"72\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-11-at-11.15.51.png 430w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-11-at-11.15.51-300x50.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-11-at-11.16.14.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17749\" title=\"Screen shot 2012-10-11 at 11.16.14\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-11-at-11.16.14.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"69\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-11-at-11.16.14.png 432w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-11-at-11.16.14-300x47.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-11-at-11.16.27.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17750\" title=\"Screen shot 2012-10-11 at 11.16.27\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-11-at-11.16.27.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"431\" height=\"70\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-11-at-11.16.27.png 431w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-11-at-11.16.27-300x48.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 431px) 100vw, 431px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-11-at-11.16.40.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17751\" title=\"Screen shot 2012-10-11 at 11.16.40\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-11-at-11.16.40.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"431\" height=\"72\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-11-at-11.16.40.png 431w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-11-at-11.16.40-300x50.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 431px) 100vw, 431px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-11-at-11.16.53.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17752\" title=\"Screen shot 2012-10-11 at 11.16.53\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-11-at-11.16.53.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"431\" height=\"72\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-11-at-11.16.53.png 431w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-11-at-11.16.53-300x50.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 431px) 100vw, 431px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-11-at-11.17.03.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17753\" title=\"Screen shot 2012-10-11 at 11.17.03\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-11-at-11.17.03.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"70\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-11-at-11.17.03.png 432w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-11-at-11.17.03-300x48.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2012 I was asked to\u00a0explain what tax was for in six tweets.\u00a0This is what I wrote. In view of his announcement on tax this<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/04\/29\/what-is-tax-for-a-lesson-for-david-cameron-in-six-tweets\/\"><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":[35,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-tax-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28871","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=28871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}