that just about sweetens i the pill enough it doesn t, but nobody is pretending that it is a perfectly- progressive picture. one would want to be taking - more from those people who have benefited from house price gains and everything else. | if you added those i elements, that might be progressive enough. how could you recoup a bit of extra money from the value of people s homes? well, what one learnsl after a long time trying and often failing in politics with policy ideas is- that the thin end of the wedge is the most powerful force - in human life. and this is the thin end of the wedge. | any future government will now be able to build on this. - some of them will add an extra higher rate for higher earners. i other governments might add a higher rate for people - over the age of 40.