Helping Hard Working People and Reversing Labour's Tax On Jobs

Gordon Brown's National Insurance rise is a tax rise that hit ordinary working people the hardest. It is a tax rise that hits companies and risks jobs at the same time as the recovery is so fragile. That is why the CBI described the rise as a "serious mistake [that] will hold back job creation and growth". The Small Business Federation described it as an "attack on jobs" that "will cause deeper unemployment."

When we need to be doing all we can to encourage job creation, throwing a tax rise on ordinary, hard working people and their jobs is both economically ridiculous and morally wrong.

That is why a Conservative Government will stop the planned National insurance increases for anybody earning less than £35,000. This means that 7 out of 10 working people will be week better off, with the poorest benefiting the most. Nobody will be worse off.

Reversing Labour's tax on jobs will be crucial to helping hard working people and encouraging job creation.