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Osborne sees off calls  to ditch 50p top tax rate

George Osborne has faced down calls from rightwing Tory MPs and the City of London to scrap the 50p top rate of tax, insisting that the time is not right as the public sector braces itself for job cuts and a pay freeze http://link.ft.com/r/CTBPCC/GKAANO/RJSWA/D40LP8/RNK26E/D5/h?a1=2011&a2=3&a3=9 refWrite wants to inform readers that you'll have the same trouble using the live link above, just asi I do, becawz FT requires paid subscriptions to access.  They hoard info and contribute to a dearth of distribution of the news commodities they own.  A Gospell curse on that!, eh? But the Bible gives us the rite to glean, and FT tiop news source does send out its mailbox advertizing, and  that's free.  Good on FT for that! I hope to find time to search further for details.  No promise, sorry! -- FT item  and note posted by EconoMix