The Tories are promising all the good god fearing crowds of middle england tax cuts if they pursue the all inportant social duty that is marriage.

As they put it the tax system they propose will, recognise the benefits of marriage. Now marriage and a lobing family is wonderful and full of benfits, but the tax system is not designed to recognise thoose benefits. The Tax system shouldnt take moral stances it should raise money from soiceties individuals and with that provide services. The is rrom for the tax system to also correct the market so that thoose who have benefitted most should pay most and actions that cause harm otherwise known as negative externalities are corrected, such as ciggerette smoking and tax.

Tax rather than trying to mould society and encourage certian actions should be simply collecting tax directly from individuals. Where indirect taxes do occur such as with smoking tax the tax should (not the case with UK tobaccoe tax) be about enocuraging or discouraging actions but making the consumer pay for the cost of their habit. So tobaccoe tax should pay for the cost of smoking caused healthcare.

The latest Conservative proposals are yet another attempt from the enternal party of big goverment, paternalism and the nanny state in trying to dictate to people into certian "moral actions". The Conservatives have shown once again that they see it as the goverments role to engineer and set out society and will use any power it has to do with.