'A remarkable failure to learn from history': IFS slams
Miliband's tax policy  Taxing numbers: The IFS was worried about
Miliband's sums Taxing numbers: The IFS was worried about
Miliband's sums  Ed Miliband's audacious tax proposals were
slammed by Britain's leading economic experts today as "a
remarkable failure to learn from history".  The Labour leader
shocked Westminster this morning when he suggested he would use
a mansion tax on properties worth over £2 million to pay for a
new 10p bottom rate of income tax.  The policy is political
ingenious, because it distances him from his Brownite past and
steals key populist policies from the Liberal Democrats and the
Tories.  But experts at the respected Institute for Fiscal
Studies (IFS) treated the proposals harshly.  "The proposal for
a new 10p starting rate of income tax has no plausible economic
justification," the institute found.    The think tank said the
same progressive aims could be accomplished by increasing the
personal allowance or lifting the poin