The Green Party is abstaining on this bill because we cannot in good conscience vote for this bill without it taking the steps that are needed and have been recommended by experts for decades now to fix some of the holes in our tax system that lead to imbalances that mean that there is a perverse incentive for the highest income earners and the wealthiest to put more and more of their money into property, particularly at this moment in time, when we've seen house prices increase by nearly 20 percent in one year, and at a time when the country is entering a recession and facing increasing unemployment—that is almost unprecedented. We have good reason to believe that putting up the top tax rate, increasing the gap between that top tax rate and the rate of tax on assets and property—which is, you know, zero at the moment—will have the perverse outcome of increasing inequality. We cannot in good conscience vote for that. It's really important, I think, that we raise this in this debate. 