Could someone please explain something to me as I genuinely don’t understand: how can lowering tax rates at a time when funding to the wealthfare state is being cut possibly be something to be proud of? Surely any prime minister who cared about those who need a helping hand in society would keep tax up so he could fund social services properly. Yet CaMoron says he is proud of lowering tax, speaking as if it was something laudable. I really do not understand his way of thinking: to me, the logical thing to do would be to put tax up for those with the highest pay; that emphasises the fact that we all live a one community, and should care for each other. Instead, the way the tories lower tax surely presupposes and legitimises a everyone for himself mindset, where greed is valued over a sense of community, where people hoard money while others are left to starve and suffer. Of course, their argument is that lower taxes encourage people to work more, so the government’s income actually increases; yet, even if that were true and not a guilt-placating fiction, it surely still supports an essentially selfish worldview. I genuinely don’t understand this way of thinking – am I missing something? How can anyone perceive that mindset as noble? Can someone explain this to me.