I think everyone is to some degree one of those people, I myself find myself thinking the bedroom tax makes sense but often have to snap out of it and think: it only makes sense if it raises a good amount of cash; why cause unnecessary pain and grief for very little gain? Agreed a wealth tax would be fine in theory, but as you say wouldn't really achieve anything.
Even as a business owner myself I would prefer to see a turnover tax. Forget taxable profits whereby a company can turnover £50b and reduce their tax liabilities to £500k; tax them at the source, their unmanipulatable turnover. I read that companies in the UK turnover over £3.5 trillion a year vs the c. £51b they pay in corporation tax, that works out at less than 1.5% of turnover being taxed.
What's the betting that smaller companies end up paying far more than 1.5% of their turnover in the form of corporation tax, whereas larger companies are paying much, much less? I remember a statistic saying Starbucks had paid around £8.5m corporation tax in over 15 years on a turnover over £5b. That can't be right.
