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Tom - no surprise, you are a collectivist too, like Reg and you say it, money is communal and what we earn is not really ours.
My view is the opposite.
As for rights, yes, one of my beefs with the HRA is indeed that alongside rights go responsibilities, this is vital. I believe in government by consent, I give consent to the government to collect taxes from me and in turn I have a duty to pay what is legally required. The government's right to tax me is or should be also balanced by a duty to ensure that tax is at a reasonable level and is spent well and efficiently - right now this is not the case and has not been for a long time. The government has a duty also to see that the economy is managed (not controlled) in a sustainable way and that is another duty that it has failed at since 1997 when it went on a spend and tax spree that we are now paying for. My money, hard earned, is mine, my private property and I have the right to see that the taxes I pay are only what I legally have to pay and this is strengthened by the fact that the government has not upheld its part of the deal in the setting of taxes at a reasonable level, a sustainable economy or in efficient wise spending.