Tories to backtrack on Green taxes and spending

Via IanPJ, this:

Conservative Home is putting forward what it calls an exclusive, that the Tories are flip flopping again, changing their minds and are going to tinker with the taxation system but not change anything.

They tell us:

Two weeks ago ConservativeHome exclusively revealed that the Conservatives were unlikely to renew the pledge to match Labour on spending. A senior frontbencher has now told us that, as part of an ongoing review of economic policy, higher green taxation is very unlikely to feature in the next Conservative manifesto.

Unlikely to feature. What kind of commitment is that?

They go on:

The Tory plan up had been to reduce taxation of families from the proceeds of higher green taxation. Lower taxation of families is now expected to be financed by stricter control of spending. The overall priority, however, will be a reduction in borrowing.

That in anyones books was not reducing taxation at all. That was just replacing one tax with another. Whilst the idea from the Tories of a stricter control on spending is welcomed, it undoubtedly will never go far enough.

Then there is this:

Speeches by David Cameron and George Osborne at the Birmingham Party Conference will warn of very difficult economic times ahead. The Tory leadership believes that the deterioration in the economic situation has vindicated their opposition to calls for a lower overall burden of taxation but they also fear that any moves to increase green taxation (even if offset by lower taxes elsewhere) will worsen an already precarious landscape for British business. There is a particular fear that green taxes will discourage urgently needed investment in new energy generating capacity.

This has to be the biggest load of horse s**t ever. Vindicated their opposition to calls for a lower overall burden of taxation !! What they are telling you here is that the poor schmucks at the lowest end of the taxation system will continue to pay through the nose so that a Tory government can continue to bail our failing businesses. Unbelievable.

As for a fear that green taxes will discourage urgently needed investment is disengenious, what they really fear is that the voters have seen through the Green scam and are not willing to put up with it any more, and they may lose votes over it.

They prove that point themselves by going on to say:

The "Green Shift" (higher taxation of pollution and lower taxation of families) will nonetheless be restated as a medium term goal. Canada's Conservatives have used opposition plans to raise green taxes to devastating electoral effect.

They got wiped out in other words. So the Tory shift in policy has nothing to do with common sense, nothing to do with making the lot of the poor taxpayers any better, its all about winning votes and gaining power, nothing more.

And, they are still missing the point that the man in the street is trying to get across as highlighted in this statement:

Tory economic traditionalists will be disappointed that George Osborne will continue to resist calls for a pro-growth package of tax reliefs. They have taken heart, however, from this week's warnings from the party leadership against panic re-regulation of the financial sector and against protectionist sentiment.

Tax relief packages. Lunacy at your expense.
In order to continue to control the individual, they will sit on the tax relief packages, taking taxes from the lowest paid in the workforce, administering it at a hugely disproportionate cost only to hand it back again as tax relief and benefits. What they should be doing, and what the man in the street is looking for, is getting rid of the lowest levels of taxation completely to break the cycle of dependency, but they won't.

Must control the masses. More of the same from Blue Labour.

Now that Cameron has hoovered up the worst of Tony Blair's old advisors, we can expect more and more of this tom foolery from the Tories.

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