Thread by @martin_farley

So "Mr 5%" throws up an interesting example of how @TheGreenParty and @UKLabour are very different.

If he earns £90k per year he will take home £1k less under Labour, but £1.4k more under the Green proposals.

Here's why...

While @UKLabour are seeking to increase taxes on higher earning workers, @TheGreenParty are promising to increase the tax take from asset owners, landowners, polluters and tax avoiders.

Tax rates will mostly stay as they are.

Coupled with our Universal Basic Income #UBI policy, this will mean all workers will we their take home pay increase.

Plus...

Along with VAT reductions, tax rebates for small businesses and Land Value Tax #lvt , this would means a significant boost for the productive economy, with the increased tax revenue all coming from unproductive asset holders (or those currently avoiding/evading tax)

This would boost the economy (especially at a local level) in a way that reduced pollution and gave workers and productive businesses a greater share of the reward.

@UKLabour are so 20th century

@TheGreenParty are so on the money

(I should also add that @TheGreenParty approach is much more redistributive than that of @UKLabour , but let them carry on thinking they're the radical ones)