2024-06-21
Can we count the ways in which our governments pick our pockets?
Nick Hubble wonders if we can recognise the half of it.
In an election year, you would think that this might be a hot topic ... but I haven't noticed it discussed much, if at all.
Yet monetary policy as shaped by the Bank of England plus the Treasury and the Chancellor of the Exchequer is the inevitable underlying cause - the same underlying cause that has been underlying since time immemorial.
You'd think it would be a hot topic by now, but somehow not. Perhaps it's too well camouflaged, or perhaps being taxed makes us feel somehow virtuous?!
Maybe we should ask our parliamentary candidates ...
