as
education, defence or waste disposal. A more
contentious issue is whether people should be taxed
heavily to pay for these.
Many people feel that all these areas of public life are so
vital that we must have high taxes to ensure that services
are of the highest standard.
If taxes are too low, the
quality of the provision declines and eventually systems
begin to break down and the only people able to manage
are the wealthy. Proponents of high taxation also argue
that in principle it is a good thing to make the wealthiest
in society bear the biggest burden
of paying for services
for the good of everyone, including the poorest.
On the other hand, if too high a percentage of salaries is
taken in tax, it is argued that people lose the incentive to
work hard. Another drawback
of high taxation is that it
builds resentment and people start to look for strategies
to avoid paying it.
I believe that taxation, managed sensibly, is a good way
of redistributing wealth and
I am in favour of the rich
supporting the less well off. In the end, this equalising
benefits everyone because if there is too great a gap
between rich and poor, resentment develops. However,
I feel hard work should be
rewarded so the threshold
above which people start to pay tax should be quite high.
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