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Originally Posted by Frank Lee
Every instance of major tax revision (usually jumps  ) was for war financing. Lovely. Now that we are in a constant state of war on this and war on that, I suppose we can expect taxes to never go down. |
The
daylight robbery tax also paid for wars.
We aren't at war any more, partly due to Blair being gone and partly due to the fact that we have to rely on the French (remember the tax above ?) having to lend us aircraft carriers.