Comments by "Michael RCH" (@michaelrch) on "Tory leadership race: Sunak front-runner as Wallace pulls out" video.

@JB27888 People on low incomes pay almost no tax as it is. Talk of tax cuts is to attract the upper middle class and property owners. This has been Tory orthodoxy forever. The economic issues for low paid workers are low wages and in-work benefits. 40% of people on universal credit are working full time. So when the Tories cut UC £1000 a year, nearly half the people that hit were working. And these people are disproportionately in the communities that the government has been promising to level up. As for people in benefits, they are seeing a real terms 8% cut in their already tiny incomes. The best thing for those on low wages and who aren't working would be mich higher minimum wages a much more redistributive state - ie higher taxes on the rich and business and better and expanded public services to reduce the cost of living.
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The guy from the NRG is going to be disappointed. All the candidates want to cut taxes and public services, not level up anything. Cutting taxes benefits those with most money already.
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