{"id":1247487,"date":"2022-01-27T13:37:45","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T18:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1247487"},"modified":"2022-01-27T13:37:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T18:37:51","slug":"boris-doubles-down-on-tax-rises-absolutely-vital-to-take-more-to-pay-for-covid-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/boris-doubles-down-on-tax-rises-absolutely-vital-to-take-more-to-pay-for-covid-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Boris Doubles Down on Tax Rises, &#039;Absolutely Vital&#039; to Take More to Pay for Covid Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fboris-doubles-down-on-tax-rises-absolutely-vital-to-take-more-to-pay-for-covid-policies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1247487&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1238023063-e1643305479993-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">While Boris has been accused of making \u2018red meat\u2019 conservative policy giveaways to buttress his waning popularity, he clearly is not wounded badly enough to consider scrapping a looming tax rise, insisting it is \u201cabsolutely vital\u201d to increase taxes on working people.<\/p>\n<p>The British government has spent \u201cover \u00a3400 billion keeping the British economy going\u201d during the coronavirus lockdowns it elected to impose on the nations and, as a consequence, the coming rise in payroll taxes on British workers must go ahead, the Prime Minister said Thursday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Speaking during a trip to Wales, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson was asked by a journalist from Sky News television whether he would be walking back the announced rise in direct taxes on workers, perhaps not an unreasonable question given how badly it is likely to play with Tory base voters. The Prime Minister has also seemed keen to make other so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/01\/17\/saving-his-own-skin-boris-johnson-deploys-military-to-secure-border-in-bid-to-boost-popularity\/\">\u201cred meat\u201d giveaways<\/a> in recent weeks to buy back support haemorrhaged to Labour after a series of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/01\/26\/bubble-burst-westminster-in-febrile-mood-amid-partygate-report-claim-and-counter-claim\/\">\u2018Partygate\u2019 scandals that have rocked Westminster<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lockdown Tax: UK Govt Hammers Voters With Even Higher Taxes, Breaking Election Promise <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/P9e1bJs1sv\">https:\/\/t.co\/P9e1bJs1sv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1435279154769895426?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 7, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite polling showing the Tories <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/09\/10\/conservatives-drop-behind-labour-lowest-first-time-since-election-following-tax-hike-poll\/\">taking a real hit<\/a> after they announced tax rises in 2021 and the party <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/01\/13\/boris-johnsons-conservatives-drop-ten-points-behind-labour-in-opinion-poll\/\">now trailing the opposition Labour by ten points<\/a>, the Prime Minister clearly isn\u2019t feeling sufficiently threatened to give hard-pressed workers a break. Making first an emotional plea about money for the NHS, the Prime Minister finally got to the point \u2014 that shutting down the UK economy for coronavirus had cost the government \u00a3400 billion.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Boris Johnson said: \u201cIt is absolutely vital, I hope people understand\u2026 We had to spend over \u00a3400 billion keeping the British economy going during the lockdowns, we\u2019ve got now to move forward, we\u2019ve got to fix the COVID backlogs, we\u2019ve got to sort out social care. I think that\u2019s the right thing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bizarrely, when facing the problems the UK economy was facing, the Prime Minister appeared to take a leaf out of U.S. President Joe Biden\u2019s book when he claimed that actually the real problem was the economy was performing too well, and this was causing problems. He told his television audience that: \u201cWe\u2019ve got record employment now, we\u2019ve got record low young unemployment. The difficulty is, actually, this economy is going so well post-Covid that we\u2019re short of hundreds of thousands of pairs of hands to do vital work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Boris\u2019s tax rises are not without critics in the Conservative Party. Treasury Select Committee chairman Mel Stride MP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/business\/2022\/01\/27\/top-tory-mp-tells-rishi-sunak-scrap-national-insurance-increase\/\">told<\/a> the BBC on Thursday: \u201cThis is an opportunity now to not go ahead with the National Insurance rises in April, principally because of the cost of living pressures that there are. Secondly, it is an inflationary measure in itself and that would have knock-on consequences for the servicing cost of the national debt, so it would have a negative fiscal impact in that sense\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Brexit Minister Frost Resigns over Boris Johnson\u2019s Tax Hikes, Lockdown Lunacy <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HLES5xauqs\">https:\/\/t.co\/HLES5xauqs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1472556068689563648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Robert Jenrick MP has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/business\/2022\/01\/27\/top-tory-mp-tells-rishi-sunak-scrap-national-insurance-increase\/\">called<\/a> on the government to at least delay the tax rise for a year. Nevertheless,&nbsp;<em>The Guardian<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2022\/jan\/27\/national-insurance-rise-will-go-ahead-despite-tory-dissent-insists-minister\">reports<\/a>, a government spokesman has insisted the tax rise will go ahead.<\/p>\n<p>National Insurance is one of two payroll taxes levied in the United Kingdom, alongside income tax. Although its name implies it pays towards a national insurance fund for use in the future, in practice the money is spent by the government immediately, meaning today\u2019s taxpayers pay for today\u2019s pensioners, rather than the money being invested. Having two separate income taxes \u2014 which effectively masks the true rate of income tax in the UK, some claim \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2021\/09\/06\/national-insurance-con-time-abolish\/\">has seen the tax criticised<\/a> and it has been suggested it should be abolished or merged with the general income tax rate.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed increase for April is 1.25 per cent, and is levied twice \u2014 once on employees pay packets, but it is also paid by employers as well. The increase represents a considerable real-term decrease in wealth for most people in work \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-58436009\">according to BBC figures<\/a>, someone earning an average wage of \u00a330,000 would see the government take another \u00a3250 a year, while someone on a professional salary of \u00a350,000 would lose another \u00a3500.<\/p>\n<p>The rises will be difficult for the Conservatives at forthcoming elections, where promises to not increase taxes are one of the most potent weapons a Tory can deploy while meeting voters during campaigning. Speaking last year when the National Insurance raise was announced, Mr Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/09\/07\/lockdown-tax-uk-govt-hammers-voters-breaking-election-promise\/\">excused himself<\/a> from the manifesto commitment to not raise taxes that pointing out, while the raise wasn\u2019t expected, neither was Coronavirus.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">British Politicians Set for \u00a32,000 Pay Rise While New Taxes Loom <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/91iUWQYNRP\">https:\/\/t.co\/91iUWQYNRP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1480233562968412163?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Boris has been accused of making \u2018red meat\u2019 conservative policy giveaways to buttress his waning popularity, he clearly is not wounded badly enough to consider scrapping a looming tax &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1247487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1247487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}