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The idea of deliberately targeting the reduction of a country's tax revenue is utterly depressing. What more do you cut from the state when you have even less to spend?
Greater levels of tax avoidance will obviously have been a motivating factor for many of the wealthy advocates of Brexit. Doubtless more so than most of us will be in a position to fathom. But I wonder whether attitudes among the general population might have started to change in the last year?
The fact that during the recent election Labour stated their intention to raise some taxes, and the Conservatives only half-heartedly tried to pretend that they wouldn't raise taxes (i.e. Fallon's gaffe/lie) to the point it was obvious that they would increase some taxes, might suggest a growing acceptance of the role of taxation in overall quality of life. And Grenfell has clearly highlighted the consequences of under-investment in the state.
That said, clearly wealthy people won't particularly care what the general population thinks, and equally, for the rest of us there's a world of difference between agreeing with the idea of paying more tax and actually being happy to pay up (especially when you are struggling to survive on your current income).