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Subject: Re: Telegraph readers solve the tax problem (Was: SKY News - Darling Solves 10p Tax Problem Posted on: Fri, 16 May 2008 00:35:30 +0000 (UTC)

michael adams wrote:
> "Ed" wrote in message
> news:cf82ee02-b5ab-4554-95e6-53329499790c@b64g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...
>
>
>> The flat rate, discussed and considered by George Osbourne and
>> others, would be amazingly simple and would have the huge dvantage
>> of saving billions in HMRC employees.
>
>> The point being that you save MILLIONS by sacking civil servants, so
>> need to take less tax to pay for 'schools n hospitals'.
>
>
> If you put millions of civil servants out of work, where do you get
> the money from to pay out extra millions in unemployment benefits
> every week ?

You reduce business rates so that large numbers of employers set up in your
country.