SCOUT· 38%35m·2026-09-13·News Politics313. Ruth Curtice: middle earners need to be taxed more
How much of a buffer does the chancellor have now? What taxes might we need to put up? How does the tax burden on UK workers compare to other countries? Why might middle earners need to pay more? Ruth Curtice from the Resolution Foundation is back to tell us about what the Rachel Reeves tax rises did to the UK tax…
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“So Ruth's job is to find new ways to extract more and more from the population to fund successive government policy failures and an ever expanding public sector ?”
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