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“We all know taxes are a necessary evil, but they are still an evil.”

Well, you and I may agree that taxes are at best a necessary evil, but the average Labour MP, and many a Labour voter, would disagree. They believe that taxes are virtuous in and of themselves because they are redistributive and for them that is a moral imperative that ranks higher than overall economic well being.

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