On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:45:46 +0100, Peter Masson wrote:

So what rate of income tax, or VAT, would you accept to pay for it?
Should other public services - gas, electricity, telephones, water and
sewerage, be heavily subsidised out of taxation?

The basic rate of income tax was 35% in the days when we had good public
services.

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Alex