An even higher minimum wage, cancelling cuts to inheritance tax or to income tax for the top fifteen per cent of earners all may make wider political and longer term economic sense. (totalpolitics.com)
The populist - and popular - pledge to soak the richest five per cent of earners while protecting everyone else has allowed them to pledge vote - winning funding for cash - starved schools and hospitals and the party's headline vow to axe tuition fees. (politics.co.uk)
«If you go back to the Eighties, when the top rate was cut to 40 per cent, the percentage of tax taken from the top five per cent of earners went up.» (dailymail.co.uk)