Monday, 23 March 2009

Pain Without Gain

Inheritance Tax is already paid almost exclusively by people who vote Tory anyway, most of them resident in safe Tory seats.

So why did the Tories ever go anywhere near it?
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  1. Anonymous23 March 2009 at 16:22

    Politics is a mix of high ideal and low self interest.
    Geoffrey Hodgson argued that left wing politics is about ideals and conservative politics was about self interest.
    The move on Inheritence Tax is basically about shoring up support not about gaining new support.

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  2. David Lindsay23 March 2009 at 16:38

    "Geoffrey Hodgson argued that left wing politics is about ideals and conservative politics was about self interest"

    Not mutually exclusive, of course.

    "The move on Inheritence Tax is basically about shoring up support not about gaining new support"

    In other words, it smacks of desperation.

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