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Originally Posted by omk3
Emotionally, I tend to say, why not tax heavily the huge incomes, and leave most of the people who are struggling alone? But that, as Geoff said, encourages cheating. It encourages people with money to take their money elsewhere. Hiding it completely, or letting more friendly governments take advantage of them. That's one of the (many) problems Greece is facing right now. People with money just take it and run. Leaving the rest to pay for everything, whether they can or not.
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There is also a lot more poor people than there is rich people. The poor generally don't tend to vote (or at least not vote Conservative), and nobody who does vote for them cares what happens to the poor anyway. In fact the sort of people who are likely to vote Conservative will be more than happy that the poor, disabled, and single parents are going to bear the brunt of the mess that the rich have made.