Kwarteng’s Mini-Budget Maxi-Shafting

 C***s The Lot of Them

Income tax cut from 20% to 19%
Estimates that 31 million people getting £170 a year more - 46p a day! Make sure you do not spend that on Netflix and fags you lazy good-for-nothing working class slackers - that goes for you too, nurses, firefighters, lorry drivers, etc.
Meanwhile the filthy rich get a tax cut from 45% to 40% on anything over £150,000. So even Kwasi Kwarteng's basic salary of £155,817.00 gets an extra £290 a year benefit. Erm, but hold on, if Kwasi Kwarteng's only income is his ministerial salary I'll eat my hat!
And someone earning £300,000 (don't forget those scrapped bankers bonus caps) would see a cool £7,500 reduction in what they have to contribute in tax. Because, you know, they're worth it.
A six-month freeze on energy bills to be paid for not by a windfall tax on producers who are raking it in due to profits boosted by the Russian/Ukrainian situation, but by national borrowing which in effect every man (but disproportionately the poorer) will pay for.
Oh, and cutting Stamp Duty, because what we really need is the price of housing to rise yet higher. Source: The Guardian

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