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It will not “hurt” people in the UK. If that tax passes through and is applied, it’s possible that the price transfer will only apply to UK residents. In that case, the Treasury will have more money to spend on services for UK residents which would hardly be hurtful.
I take it you have never encountered the competence of a U.K. government-run service?
There certainly are possible improvements, but it’s overall very well managed and there are here many aspects of how civil servants are trying to improve at the same time the cost, the efficiency, the quality but also how to think about the service that touched me. The National Health Service, for instance, is a little bare-bones but the cheapest developed health service there is. The Land Registry is incredibly helpful, especially when you depend on reliable, sensical data for your business. The BBC is expensive but peerless. Transport for London, for all its sins and there are many, transport more people, faster, further, more reliably than anyone; it’s heavily dependent on having redundancy rather than reliability but at least it works often enough. Social services are minimal and insufficient, but nowhere else can people find jobs so easily if they are motivated and willing to learn. That is also not just due to companies, but also government services that manage to let people employ others without making it too difficult.
I sincerely believe that the same system, without the stress that the Tory government is putting on the budget for education, police and health, could be world-class.