In Scandinavia and Germany many earners have the option of paying a “church tax”. Despite the advance of secularism, surprisingly high numbers of people continue to do so and this funds innovative development projects.
Is there the potential to give British taxpayers the opportunity to pay a minimal extra percentage of their earnings into ring-fenced funds covering areas such as Aids relief, high culture and sport? Such an invitation to engage in collective and democratic philanthropy – at arm’s length from Government – could do more to foment a sense of national togetherness than a “British day”.
Such a system would also have the bonus in that no-one could dip into the cash to fund millennial domes. To not consider such a possibility is to assume that self-interests will trump idealism.
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