I was manning the register weekends for the Ice Capades Chalet in Atlanta and made about $40 a week. I lived on a wing and a prayer for decades, and having to pitch anything whatsoever in the communal pot was consternating. I fancied that I asked for nothing from government; in trade, they should ask for nothing from me. Labour would still have us believe that the solution to the UK’s chronic deficit is to hammer ‘the rich’. That 10 per cent of top earners shelling out six times their proportion of the tax-paying public?