Roger Holmes, MK

Mebyon Kernow PPC (South East Cornwall),
Roger Holmes' reply

"Yes, I support in principle all three of your propositions as tax should be related directly to ability to pay. That is one reason why I do not support big increases in VAT which affects the less well off more than the richer. I also support measures to reduce the pay differentials somwhat because they are growing too wide. The gap between rich and poor is too big and getting greater. One way to promote this would be to revive the late Edward Heath's idea of pay rises containing a flat rate element as well as the percentage. His 'pound plus four per cent' may not have been quite the right levels but the principle, added to a minimum pay level as we now have, seems to me correct".

Roger Holmes, MK PC for SE Cornwall.

Do you agree in principle with the aforementioned policy?*
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In a generic sense, do you believe that the rich should pay more tax and the poor should pay less tax?

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