Churchill, Taxes, the War and the Vote
Broadcasting, 1940 (BBC)
Writing in The Independent on April 13th Dominic Lawson, son of Margaret Thatcher’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, says that “the public want honesty, but not when it comes to their taxes.” The voters, Lawson argues forcefully, will never undo the government entitlements that are bankrupting modern democracies. It is ludicrous, he adds, for British Conservatives to deplore the national debt, and then “to propose measures which would do nothing to reduce it, but actually increase it….as if Winston Churchill had declared, ‘I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, sweat and tax cuts.’”
My interest was piqued when Mr.…