Who Funds The TaxPayer's Alliance?


A fiver and some coins on a table.

One of the first rules of setting up a political lobby group is that you should have a name which defies opposition. Who in their right mind would be against "Citizens For Prosperity" or "The People's Democratic Society" or "Ministry of Peace" - why only a violent Communist! That's who! It is this spirit that the "TaxPayers' Alliance" was named. We're all tax payers, aren't we? It's so wide a name as to be meaningless. Yet its name has connotations of inclusiveness which make it very hard to …

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