4124 x 5586 px | 34,9 x 47,3 cm | 13,7 x 18,6 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
1909
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Original Cartoon from Punch Magazine 6 January 1909 by Bernard Partridge (1861-1945). Info from wiki: With a balanced budget, and a realistic assessment of future public expenditure, Asquith was able, in his second and third budgets, to lay the foundations for limited redistribution of wealth and welfare provisions for the poor. Blocked at first by Treasury officials from setting a variable rate of income tax with higher rates on those with high incomes, he set up a committee under Sir Charles Dilke which recommended not only variable income tax rates but also a super-tax on incomes of more than £5, 000 a year. Asquith also introduced a distinction between earned and unearned income, taxing the latter at a higher rate. He used the increased revenues to fund old-age pensions, the first time a British government had provided them.
