{"id":8630,"date":"2011-01-31T12:08:54","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T10:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=8630"},"modified":"2011-01-31T12:08:55","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T10:08:55","slug":"who-will-be-getting-angry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/01\/31\/who-will-be-getting-angry\/","title":{"rendered":"Who will be getting angry?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I've just noted the dangers that occur when a majority are oppressed by an elite.<\/p>\n<p>Who will get angry? Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/2011\/jan\/31\/tax-rates-middle-britain\">note this from this morning's Guardian,<\/a> reporting the Institute for Fiscal Studies:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Analysis from the Institute for Fiscal Studies today reveals that changes in April will drag 750,000 people into the 40% tax bracket. Meanwhile, little-publicised tax credit cuts will push the marginal rates of 175,000 working parents up above 70%. In theory, effective tax rates in Middle Britain could reach 83%, the rate that Labour levied on Britain's top earners before 1979.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And when UK companies are being offered tax rates as low as 8% you honestly think people are going to say \"yes, of course we're all in this together?\"<\/p>\n<p>No they're not: and they're not going to be quiet about it either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just noted the dangers that occur when a majority are oppressed by an elite. Who will get angry? Well, note this from this morning&#8217;s<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/01\/31\/who-will-be-getting-angry\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-condems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8630","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=8630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}