FROM Atlantis sinking to 9/11, I’ve yet to see any crisis faced that couldn’t be beaten by the cutting of taxes. I’ll talk you through a few:
The fall of Rome
Invaded by Goths, sacked by barbarians, the rise of Christianity and the decadence of its people: all mere irritants compared to the savage taxing of agriculture. Nobody grew food because it didn’t make economic sense to do so so millions starved. We could all be speaking Latin today if they’d announced a tax holiday.
The Black Death
The most fatal pandemic in recorded history killed 200 million. It was blamed on the conjunction of planets and a punishment from God instead of recognising the truth: it was caused by big government stifling wealth creators with regressive taxation. Cut those and bubonic plague couldn’t have got a foothold.
The English Civil War
Despite everything English being great and good at all times, because I won’t have people doing this country down, at one time there were competing visions of greatness. Like now, except Rishi’s beaten. Anyway, I’m not 100 per cent what it was about because of my terrible Leeds education, but I do know that lowering taxes would have fixed it.
World War Two
Hitler? Only became chancellor because of high taxes, not because of rampant inflation and failing government services or anything. Europe? Weak because of high taxes, not because of out-of-touch governments ignoring worker demands or anything. World War Two? Entirely preventable by the introduction of freeports.
The loss of the British Empire
One of the greatest disasters in history, and all due to taxation. If we’d just announced a zero-tax regime the money would have come flooding in – left-wing economists don’t understand this, but that’s how it works – and we’d be rightly ruling the US and China by now. We must get it back. We owe it to the Queen.
The resignation of Margaret Thatcher
A hammer-blow from which this nation has never recovered. And so unnecessary because all she needed do was abolish the poll tax, income tax, VAT, capital gains tax, the NHS and all public services. She would still be ruling us today. And in a very important sense soon will be.
