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| | The Observer | Comment | Would Crosland feel betrayed by Blair and Brown? |
 | | Redistribution, Crosland argued, was easier and less painful with a large and growing national cake than with a small one. |
 | | I myself edited a book, Crosland and New Labour (Macmillan), a year or two later, in which the topic was discussed by a range of authors, including the Chancellor, Gordon Brown, a self-proclaimed disciple. |
 | | Crosland never believed in 'penal' levels of taxation for higher incomes, which he believed were, at a standard rate of 35 per cent and a maximum of 83 per cent on earned incomes, already close to the level where their disincentive effects would outweigh the revenue-raising and redistributive benefits. |
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