We can and should simplify the tax system by providing to the legislatures and the bureaucracies the incentive to simplify the tax system.

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Tax cuts would be a far sharper incentive to create jobs than the current system of welfare for big companies.

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Moreover, the chancellor's obsession with means-tested state pensions has undermined the incentive to save for retirement and the skewing of the tax-benefit system against marriage has been greatly exacerbated, despite overwhelming evidence that young people brought up within married couple families tend to be more successful and less likely to be involved in criminal activities than those who are not.

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