Never mind tax rises -- runaway inflation is already squeezing us dry

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Figures published yesterday by HM Revenue & Customs show that the tax take for April to September was £438.6 billion -- £32.1 billion more than at this point last year.
51% : We have also felt this heavily due to frozen tax thresholds, which have had more and more of an impact as prices have risen.
51% : She must not forget that we are already paying more tax because of runaway inflation on her watch -- her policies, such as the national insurance raid earlier this year, have played their part.
49% : When the tax threshold freeze is inevitably extended, she needs to acknowledge the huge chunk of money that savers and workers have already lost, thanks to high inflation.
41% : Last year's budget was one of the biggest tax raids in history, yet Reeves is suggesting that more tax pain is to come.
36% : * Put a stop to damaging pension tax rumours, Rachel Reeves told Even when inflation slows, it doesn't mean prices are falling -- they are just rising less quickly.

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