The UK tax burden is at record levels. The cost of living crisis is a cost of government taxation crisis. The government is supposed to serve us, not fleece us.

The UK cost of living crisis is a cost of UK government taxation crisis. The UK tax burden is climbing faster than any other major Western economy and is now at record levels. Frozen thresholds drag millions into higher rates. Higher NI, VAT, fuel duty, green levies, business rates…every pound extracted by the government is a pound that never reaches our food or energy bill. Inflation hurts. Energy prices hurt. But the biggest squeeze is the government itself: record tax takes, endless spending pressures and stupid counterproductive policies that drive costs up then demand more tax to “fix” them. We don’t mainly have a cost-of-living problem. We have a cost-of-government problem. The key question we should be asking is not how much tax is required, but instead, what the government is spending our tax money on. Cut the tax burden. Let people keep more of what they earn. Watch the cost of living crisis immediately ease.