Yes of course business leaders will oppose higher taxes – everyone should – but to hit companies such as ours (two director/employees) is just unfair – and we did approach our bank and were refused an increase in our overdraft to cover the recession.

We are doing 20 hour days because we can’t afford to take an employee on (in fairness it’s not just the NI) – at present we would pay 12% on the employer contribution – if that goes up by 1 penny it is an increase of 8% to us (from 12 to 13 %) – and that doesn’t include the employee’s contribution.

So you can swear black is white all you like Young Will but to me the NI increase is a tax on jobs period.

You know it. I know it. Everyone knows it – it stinks and we will have to disagree here I’m afraid….

1. The distributional analysis looks at who benefits as the Tories bring the planned rise in National Insurance down from 1% to 0.5%. The IFS analysis clearly shows that those towards the top of the income distribution to better than others.

2. Business leaders oppose tax shocker. You’ll be telling me that the unions oppose public sector cuts, next. I presume you haven’t seen the article in today’s Guardian showing that the business leaders who backed the Tories ignored their own accounts in rushing to their judgments.

3. They did and they broke their manifesto promise. I’m glad they did since the scale of the recession was unanticipated in 2005 and I would rather those earning over £150k made up some of the difference rather than rising the base rate of income tax was raised.

4. I agree that the whole campaign has been more negative than positive but the media has largely ignored Labour’s positive agenda including the launch of their health, defence, and environment manifestos among others. We covered the latter but there’s only 2 of us working full time and, in our judgment, exposing the risks of a Tory government is a higher priority. Plus we don’t agree with everything that Labour is proposing eg Trident renewal.

All the best,

Will

1. How can a tax on jobs help workers of his country?
2. Why have 110 thousand business owners, including Digby Jones, Gordon Browns business minister, said this will be a disaster for workers and jobs?
3. Didn’t Labour say they wouldn’t raise the top rate of tax in every manifesto since 1997?

Do Labour ministers not have one have a single positive thing to say about the Labour Party Will?

Stop being reactive about the Tories all the time – it just demonstrates weakness and there is a danger that idiot Nick Clegg may hold the balance of power in this country in eight days time…