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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Take the Mail on Sunday’s splash: “Burnham plots homes tax raid on middle class”.
49% : But rarely is influence quite as blatant as Reform makes it appear: a Thai-based crypto billionaire bankrolls the party and gives Farage £5m, and Reform promises a “cryptoassets and digital finance” bill that shrinks crypto capital gains tax to 10%, creates a Treasury bitcoin reserve fund and lets taxes be paid in crypto.To prove that a cap is nonpartisan, Labour would have to forgo its union funding.
43% : You’ll find it around the median salary of £39,039, the midpoint where half the population earns more and half less.The Sunday Telegraph was at it too, splashing on “Blair warns Burnham: Don’t raise capital gains tax”, amid speculation that Burnham could raise £11bn by equalising unearned capital gains tax with hard-earned income tax.
40% : Defending gross inequality, they make political donations or they use the media they own to grossly misrepresent wealth and taxes, while abusing the poor as “shirkers v strivers”.
36% : Watch them resist minor wealth taxes by misleading ordinary earners that it will affect them.

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