41.  Bureaus do not sell services to citizens or raise taxes directly.

42.  Politicians, not bureaucrats, raise taxes, and bureaucrats serve politicians, not citizens.

43.  The plan raised taxes, restricted credit, and introduced price controls.

44.  Zemstva could raise taxes and had the right to make representations to the central government.

45.  And car tax is raised to a hundred and ten pounds a year.

46.  But Mr Clarke indicated he preferred to raise taxes on spending -- such as widening VAT -- rather than putting up income tax.

47.  Mr Clarke allayed some Tory fears of a rise in direct taxation, indicating he preferred to raise taxes on spending -- such as widening VAT.

48.  But there will be relief that the Chancellor has not tapped business to ease his problems with the public sector borrowing requirement by raising taxes directly.

49.  Labour would raise taxes, the Conservatives would lower them.

50.  Labour said it would raise taxes and was subject to the most sustained derision, as well as black propaganda.