{"id":51750,"date":"2020-07-22T07:09:24","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T06:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=51750"},"modified":"2020-07-22T07:09:24","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T06:09:24","slug":"the-right-response-to-the-question-what-taxes-should-be-raised-to-pay-for-coronavirus-is-none","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/07\/22\/the-right-response-to-the-question-what-taxes-should-be-raised-to-pay-for-coronavirus-is-none\/","title":{"rendered":"The right response to the question \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcWhat taxes should be raised to pay for coronavirus?\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 is \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcNone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted this <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichardJMurphy\/status\/1285807702866788352\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">thread on Twitter this morning<\/a>. The argument is pretty important in the context of current economic debate:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-51753 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-22-at-06.59.42-550x673.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-22-at-06.59.42-550x673.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-22-at-06.59.42-245x300.png 245w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-22-at-06.59.42-768x940.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-22-at-06.59.42-327x400.png 327w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-22-at-06.59.42.png 784w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-51752 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-22-at-07.00.08-550x735.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-22-at-07.00.08-550x735.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-22-at-07.00.08-224x300.png 224w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-22-at-07.00.08-768x1027.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-22-at-07.00.08-299x400.png 299w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-22-at-07.00.08.png 784w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-51751 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-22-at-07.00.54-550x804.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"804\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-22-at-07.00.54-550x804.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-22-at-07.00.54-205x300.png 205w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-22-at-07.00.54-768x1122.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-22-at-07.00.54-274x400.png 274w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-22-at-07.00.54.png 780w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted this thread on Twitter this morning. The argument is pretty important in the context of current economic debate:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,106,185,182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-politics","category-tacs-economics","category-tacs-tax-after-coronavirus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51750","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=51750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}