Conservatives push more Taxes

A Conservative Pretzel Tax.
Britain's so-called "Conservative" Party is now targeting the middle class with new taxes.  Conservatives told pretzel shop owners they will be hit by a new 20 per cent Value Added Tax for daring to create jobs and serve delicious food.

Conservative Socialism  -  Both European Socialists and Conservatives eagerly pass new taxes

• Both sides act to protect the Marxist re-distributive Welfare State.
• To a Socialist the answer to everything is more taxes.
• What is called "Conservatism" does not exist.  Conservatives are simply moderate Socialists.

Karl Marx won the war of ideas.

Nearly all political factions accept the forced Marxist re-distribution of the wealth and a cradle to grave welfare state.  Democrats, Labour Party, Conservative Party, Socialists, Republicans, Christian Democrats it does not matter.  They all agree on wealth re-distribution and do everything in their power to protect a centralized Big Government.

Even with the meltdown of the Euro and massive American debt all factions knee-jerk to defend the Socialist state and its programs by increasing taxes.

In the United States the GOP has protected Big Government spending at every opportunity.  Local Republican Parties at the state level have been given "credit" for cutting spending.  But the only reason cuts were made is states cannot print phony monopoly money to fund Socialism like they do at the Federal level or in Europe.

FRANCE  -  The so-called "Conservative" party's austerity largely consisted of raising taxes. There was a 3 percent surtax on incomes above €500,000, an increase of one percentage point in the top marginal tax rate (from 40 to 41 percent), and an end to the automatic indexation of tax brackets for inheritance, wealth, and income taxes.

There was also a 5 percent hike in the corporate income tax on businesses with revenue of more than €250 million, as well as a hike in the capital-gains tax, and closure of several corporate tax breaks. And even though most of these tax hikes were aimed at the wealthy, the middle class did not get off free. There was an increase in the Value Added Tax (VAT) and the excise taxes on tobacco and alcohol.
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BRITAIN  -  The so-called "Conservative" Party recently suffered a drubbing in local elections. Among the Cameron government’s first “austerity” measures was to hike the personal income tax to 50 percent for those earning more than £150,000 a year. That measure managed to actually decrease income-tax revenues by £509 million.  British government spending still consumes more than 49 percent of GDP. Government spending actually increased by £59.2 billion from 2009 to 2011.

A massive Conservative Tax on Pretzels.  Stephen Downey, chairman of the UK’s Auntie Anne’s franchisee committee, said business owners were aghast at the ‘ridiculous’ changes.

‘We are just selling bread. There is flour, water and yeast and nothing else to it. Yet we are being told that we will have to raise our prices by 20 per cent.

'This decision will cost jobs. We had hoped to double the number of our stores by opening up an extra 20. This would have created around 300 jobs.

'But who will want to invest £200,000 now in this economic climate if they have to raise their prices by 20 per cent?’
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SPAIN  -  imposed a “wealth tax” on citizens with €700,000 of assets, and a 7 percent income tax on those earning more than €300,000 per year; capital-gains taxes were also hiked.

ITALY  -  imposed a “Solidarity Tax” of 3 percent on all taxpayers who earn more than €300,000.

GREECE  -  increased taxes by nearly twice as much as it cut spending, including a 5 percent surtax on the wealthy. VATs were hiked nearly everywhere. And fuel, alcohol, and tobacco were also prime tax targets.
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(UK Daily Mail)        (National Review)




The solution is a tax revolution.
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"If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare… The powers of Congress would subvert the very foundation, the very nature of the limited government established by the people of America." 
- - - Alexander Hamilton
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"I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer."
  - - - Benjamin Franklin