A tax rate too far?

For the first time (on this blog), I'm going to get a little controversial. Hear me out; debate with me if you wish!


In a time of public spending cuts affecting our health service (I recently went to a private hospital for the first time in my memory because of an NHS wait to figure out the cause of some deafness), our social services and our entire public sector, the discussion of the abolition of the fifty-pence tax rate is frankly enough to [finally] drive me crazy.