I was born in 1949, now in 2025 Great Britain has the highest tax burden in my lifetime & I would argue the most degraded public services.
Post war the UK has suffered from unrelenting Keynesian economic theory, followed by Modern Monetary Theory which is the same mutated nonsense that public debt doesn’t matter.
A high tax economy is based fundamentally on the premise the State can spend your money better than you. Of course it spends your money on its cronies, their associates, voter’s bribes (welfare), fake health services, State employees index linked pensions & forever wars.
I know of only one country which uses tax for the benefit of its citizens, Denmark. Yet I suspect Danes also would also be better off controlling their own money
The State can only exist with support from the wealth creating sector, it has no financial resources of its own.
There is also an absurd self serving theory that public spending promotes economic growth.
“Trying to tax your way to prosperity is like standing in a bucket & attempting to lift yourself up by the handle”
Winston Churchill
In Britain the public sector expands every year regardless for which party you vote.
At the time of writing there are over six million people working directly for the State. Millions more in association with spendthrift government contracts.
The wealth creating sector is on its knees, employer national insurance, business rates, employment regulations, PAYE & pension commitments, social workplace engineering, the list goes on.
Moreover there are no cabinet ministers with any business experience, particularly not in small or medium size business which is the driving force of the economy.
The regulatory, immigration, tax & welfare burden is crippling the country.
Inflation is permanent, currency degradation endemic & entrepreneurs flee daily, the UK tops the international chart.
MI6, CIA & shady government agencies involve Britain in expensive forever wars with no parliamentary scrutiny.
Consequently a police state has evolved & principles of English Law abandoned. At the time of writing eleven policemen arrested after handcuffing a lone demonstrator at an event promoting homosexuality.
The very monarchy itself has turned its back on the constitution.
Political pseudo science controls policy & British charitable institutions have been infiltrated, christianity abandoned, whilst an uncritical MSM looks benignly on. Taxation is a tool of political envy worthy of a Clement Attlee style administration as private schools, home educators & farmers are finding out.
Social media has been brutally censored, sentencing policy is based on religion, class or skin colour, de facto if not de jure.
State hierarchy have a deep loathing of the country, its people & history, they are often driven by their childhood induced mental disorders such as sociopathy & psychopathy.
Normal balanced people it seems don’t enter politics, nor these days it appears journalism.
The result is the United Kingdom has become a kleptocracy.
But most of this you know.
The question is what can you do?
Pending banking, currency & investment legislation are enabling legalized theft from middle England.
When the CEO of Lloyd’s Bank, Charles Nunn, complains publicly of creeping communism the only option for the citizen is to ‘go off grid’.
The Bank Charter Acts of 1840s & subsequent legislation have produced a bizarre phenomenon where your bank clerk decides not if you can have a loan but if you can withdraw your own money! Try & make an electronic transfer to buy gold or silver.
Your income, savings & purchases are heavily taxed, what is left over when you die is all but confiscated from your heirs.
What can you do?
Tax is simply a form of larceny.
You wouldn’t dream of displaying valuables on your car seat or leaving doors & windows open when you go to work or on holiday.
Realize the government can’t see your wealth if you make it difficult.
Governments are no different from simple house burglars, they steal what’s easy. The low hanging fruit if you will.
The really rich don’t pay much tax, nor do the very poor, it’s those in the middle that get clobbered because they are so visible.
The wealthy have tax advisers, trust lawyers, offshore hideaways.
I come full circle, years ago I penned an article for this magazine, the situation hasn’t changed.
A gold sovereign has no CGT, VAT, it is coin of the realm, has international value & is inflation resistant. £50k’s worth can fit in a tea caddy.
Ponder that if you will.
Credit To Going Postal For Editorial & First Publishing
