Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Mansion Tax and Bedroom Tax | |
Posted by: | Peter Millman | |
Date/Time: | 20/04/15 14:51:00 |
We already have plenty of wealth taxes - income tax, capital gains tax and inheritance tax to name three. As for Bedroom Tax, this was in fact the removal of the Spare Room Subsidy. Someone posted earlier that it was unfair because there were no smaller properties to move to. Not true. There are plenty of smaller properties, often on the same street or estate. They are over-occupied by growing families. The policy was designed to encourage tenants to exchange their under-occupied properties with those who had outgrown their smaller properties. But of course socialism goes out the window when it means self-sacrifice. |