As we await the Budget in March and the rise in National Insurance rates in April, you’ll be glad to know that Gordon Brown is responding to criticism that he’s made the tax system too complicated. The new tax form will have only two lines: ‘How much do you earn?’ and ‘Hand it over’.
– Eamonn Butler from yesterday’s Adam Smith Institute Bulletin
Goodness. Variations on that joke have been floating around the States for as long as I can remember. Usually circulated by Republicans.