Tax and Politics

Last week was special with the awarding of the Nobel Peace prize and our main political parties getting all worked up about inheritance tax. I can understand people wanting to pass down their wealth to their children and grandchildren but surely there is a limit. If people pay less inheritance tax, the Government will be forced to take its money by some other tax or just spend less money on public services. Everyone will lose and not just those lucky enough to be able to pass on several hundreds of thousands of pounds after they die. Is that fair?

But what sort of world will there for those benefitting from inheritance tax? Unless something is done about climate change, our planet will be awful place in 50 years time. Preventing this catastrophe should be the main worry of UK politicians rather than trying to buy votes at the next election by the nonsense of promising better public services whilst reducing taxation.

Thankfully the world is not so short sighted as UK politicians as is shown by the award, also this week, of the Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore for his warnings on climate change. I urge readers to borrow the Oscar winning DVD "An Inconvenient Truth" from their local library.

David Young, The Green Party General Election candidate for Bracknell.
9 Haywood, Bracknell, RG12 7WG. Phone 01344 456489