How Labour’s tax system punishes couples for being married
Married couples are being brutally punished by Labour’s tax and benefit system, according to research to be published tomorrow.
Experts say that couples where one partner works and the other stays at home are the worst affected, paying a far higher proportion of their incomes to the taxman than in almost any other civilised country.
Britain is almost alone in failing to reward couples that stay together, according to the first international study of its kind.
And, compared to European Union states, the average family is paying 25 per cent more tax.
I am not surprised in the least. It fits the theory of socialism/ communism and also the method of keeping people closer to the poverty line while extracting more wealth from the hard working taxpayer. To spend on more CCTV and the like probably.
In other OECD countries, the tax paid by one-earner married couples on average wages is around 50 per cent of that paid by a single person on the same income.
But in Britain the figure is 75 per cent – even when tax credits and child benefit are taken into account. The findings will fuel concern that Labour’s tax and benefit policies are helping to destroy family life.
Often, critics say, couples who break up will be better off than if they had stayed together.
Which is the point. Broken families (single mothers and disenfranchised men) suit the agenda of big government. Women are more likely to vote the same government in because they benefit (or they think they do). Of course, thinking of society as a whole seems to be beyond the capacity of the empowered woman of today, instead choosing tyranny (being taken care of) rather than freedom (responsibility for their own actions) which is why Marx spoke of using women to turn society on its head. Read the rest of this entry »
