Most radio and TV chatter focused on what wasn’t in the Budget. Nothing on social care, no extra help for me, us, them, him. What also wasn’t there was much of the stuff we were worried would be. No mention of pension tax relief, inheritance, capital gains and nasty, new wealth taxes. Instead, he was stealthy, he let off the wealthy and I won’t embarrass myself by trying to squeeze ‘healthy’ into this sentence. The ‘stealthy’, not inflation-linking various allowances, won’t creep up on us until both Boris and Rishi are long-gone. But I do think Brexit Britain will rue the corporation tax hikes.
“Donald Trump is winning. Business, beware”
There’s a perception that whatever might be the consequences for the rest of the world, Trump as President should be good for business. Surely, as a business man himself, he’d be the friend of Corporate America, and everything, money-making-wise, went pretty well last time around didn’t it?
