Everyone’s bound to be caught in Hammond’s tax rise net | Phillip Inman
by Phillip Inman from on (#3VAK3)
The chancellor needs to fill lots of holes in public services - and it will take big money
Philip Hammond, under pressure to ease austerity, must spend the summer preparing the ground for sweeping tax rises that catch everyone in their net.
A tax on the rich is not going to be enough to meet the demand for 20bn extra on health spending by the end of the parliament, let alone the cost of extra police officers to tackle a significant rise in crime, higher social care funding and a boost to the defence budget.
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