Topic: | Re:Re:Mansion Tax and Bedroom Tax | |
Posted by: | Colin Jordan | |
Date/Time: | 20/04/15 08:02:00 |
Joe, I think the term 'mansion' is important for the reason I stated in my earlier post: '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.' It therefore plays to Labour's 'class war' credentials and is ultimately divisive, encouraging a 'them and us' view of society, in which 'them' are wealthy, mainly southern, 'mansion-dwellers', while 'us' are the hard-working sons of toil living in the rest of the country. I have nothing against the idea of the extremely wealthy paying appropriate levels of tax, but without the moral judgement and stereotyping involved in the term 'mansion'. |