Topic: | Re:Mansion Tax and Bedroom Tax | |
Posted by: | Colin Jordan | |
Date/Time: | 19/04/15 09:10:00 |
No. They both encourage the negative demographic stereotyping which both the main parties play to among their supporters. The 'bedroom tax' is a mean-minded tax which implicitly supports the notion that the country is awash with scroungers and benefit cheats who must be made to 'pay their way'. The 'mansion tax' is a term redolent of feudalism and class war. The term 'mansion' implies that those whose properties would be liable for it are rich, powerful landowners, sneering from their lofty heights at the poverty-stricken peasants beneath them. In my opinion, neither is a vote-winner. They merely help to cement the prejudices that dyed-in-the-wool supporters of both main parties hold of their opponents, and if politicians were different sorts of people, they would reject both terms as being unworthy of their cause. |