“Are you sure about your use of the word ‘exodus’?”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1569400/Emigration-soars-as-Britons-desert-the-UK.html
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/15642/4-000-people-a-week-trying-to-leave-UK
“Isn’t it possible that some of these people simply resent paying tax regardless of what it’s spent on, because they are inherently greedy people?”
Or perhaps that they would just rather pay directly for what they use because what they are getting for their taxes just isn’t good enough. People generally don’t mind paying taxes when they are not being stung with them.
If income tax was abolished tomorrow and the Government announced that the benefits of the non-working family next door was allocated to you instead on a charitable basis, would you turn up with a cheque each month for the full amount of your tax and national insurance? I seriously doubt it.
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