[Mr K]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

The rich are paying more than ever before, actually. If you overdo it, they will either change their behaviour to counteract the tax increase or they will move out of the country, as Mick Jagger did in the 1970s.

There is no point in taxing the rich to such an extent that you drive them away. That will just reduce our income, and who do you think would have to make up the deficiency? The poor, of course, because they have nowhere to run.

So why is the gap between rich and poor increasing?
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...h-poor-9733231