{"id":52538,"date":"2020-08-30T10:27:30","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T09:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=52538"},"modified":"2020-08-30T10:27:30","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T09:27:30","slug":"real-life-tories-want-tax-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/08\/30\/real-life-tories-want-tax-increases\/","title":{"rendered":"Real life Tories want tax increases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the light of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/08\/30\/the-big-issue-for-the-sunday-papers-should-not-be-that-we-might-have-some-very-small-tax-increases-the-big-issue-is-that-these-tax-increases-might-increase-unemployment-even-more-and-the-scandal-is\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this morning's debate<\/a> on tax increases I will quote <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/robertnpalmer\/status\/1299966519972106241\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this thread<\/a> from my friend and Tax Justice UK colleague Robert Palmer (I on the advisory board of TJUK):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-52539\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-30-at-10.18.56-550x987.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"987\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-30-at-10.18.56-550x987.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-30-at-10.18.56-167x300.png 167w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-30-at-10.18.56-768x1378.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-30-at-10.18.56-856x1536.png 856w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-30-at-10.18.56-1141x2048.png 1141w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-30-at-10.18.56-223x400.png 223w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-30-at-10.18.56.png 1178w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-52540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-30-at-10.19.16-550x633.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-30-at-10.19.16-550x633.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-30-at-10.19.16-261x300.png 261w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-30-at-10.19.16-768x884.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-30-at-10.19.16-348x400.png 348w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-30-at-10.19.16.png 1168w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Note Robert's PS: we are on the same hymn sheet. Let's have tax increases for sure, but they must not be overall increases but any money raised now must be used to give cuts to those least well off in our society. That's what tax justice is about, and it makes complete economic sense right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the light of this morning&#8217;s debate on tax increases I will quote this thread from my friend and Tax Justice UK colleague Robert Palmer<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/08\/30\/real-life-tories-want-tax-increases\/\"><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":[35,106,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-politics","category-tax-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52538","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=52538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}