More Redistribution Required

The Chancellor has decided (with the collusion of the coalition!) that the 50% tax rate for those earning over £150,000 should be reduced to 45% because the government underestimated the lengths that rich people would go to in order to avoid paying tax and so less revenue has been made than expected. But just because the monetary elitists can play the fiscal game doesn’t mean that we should give in to them! Let’s reduce the tax threshold even further so that people who earn over £100,000 need to pay 50%. I mean at which point does anybody that rich need to worry about tax?! So George Osborne is a capitalist fanatic, devoted to economic competition regardless of right or wrong; no surprise!

Simply Unfair

The ConDem government has announced its plan for tuition fees: at least £6,000 per student, with the option for universities to demand up to £9,000. So now students will be saddled with almost double what they were having to pay before, at least! There are some caveats saying that universities will be monitored to ensure that students from poorer backgrounds are being given ample opportunity to enrol, but in general the policies will simply further the economic repression that is so fundamental to right-wing greedy capitalism. Even students who wish to pay off their debts early will be financially punished with an extra repayment in return for not repaying the full amount of interest on their loan - talk about malicious!
This coalition has previously said it would be too time consuming to means-test everyone, but I reckon most students would be willing to give a bit more of their time if it meant a much fairer system was implemented where only richer students would have to pay the maximum tuition fees while poorer ones actually received financial help to attend the university of their choice and receive a worthwhile education. As for the expense of means testing? Well, we could take it from the overblown ‘international aid’ budget which seems to make clear that other countries are considerably more important than our own in these difficult economic times! The ConDems, as usual, should be ashamed; before young adults even have the opportunity to get involved with the property market, they are already carrying a huge pecuniary burden.