Young people are hostile to income redistribution. It’s not because they’re rightwing – they simply pay too much tax already
Taxes are the price paid for living in a civilised society.
That founding belief in the moral imperative to stump up for the public good lies deep in progressive bones, just as the belief that people should be able to keep more of their own hard-earned cash does for rightwingers. British liberals are so used to arguing that you can’t have lovely, Scandinavian-style public services on American-style taxes that most of us could probably do it in our sleep.
Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist
