Stupid tax arguments

"We cannot justify taxing the poorest to pay benefits such as tax credits and child benefit to higher earners”

- why don't you pay the tax credits and child benefit of higher earners out of the tax of the higher earners then? They are paying more tax than the lower-earners after all, so it should be easier to manage...

Or, at least don't make stupid arguments.

750,000 'to pay higher tax rate'

Three-quarters of a million more people are set to become higher rate taxpayers in April, says the Institute for Fiscal Studies.