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Letters | 9 May 2009

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issue 09 May 2009

Taxing questions

Sir: Fraser Nelson writes (‘A tale of two Gordons’, 2 May) that internal Treasury documents justify the 50p tax rate on the basis that ‘Karl Marx’s progressive tax structure was designed so that the tax burden was heaviest on those who were most able to contribute’.

Certainly, Labour spokespersons daily repeat this cosy doctrine about the taxation of the rich, in exactly these words.

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