TaxPayers' Alliance describe Miliband's new taxes as "lazy and dangerous"

Responding to Labour's plans to introduce a number of taxes and increase spending on the Health Service, Jonathan Isaby, Chief Executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said:

"This was sixth form socialism of the most uninspiring kind. It is lazy and dangerous to implement populist measures that won't raise the money politicians promise. Windfall taxes will hurt pensioners who rely on stable returns for a comfortable retirement, sin taxes hit the poorest hardest, and a Mansion Tax would be a vindictive gesture that will eventually find its way down the property ladder to hit much less expensive homes, too.

"If we want more money for essential services and cancer drugs in the NHS then there must be a serious and sustained war on wasteful spending, alongside a rigorous reassessment of priorities."