Today is an exciting one for the TaxPayers' Alliance - our UK Debt Clock starts its 1,300 mile tour of Britain, highlighting the vast scale of the national debt to taxpayers right across the country. For many years now, there...

In response to the 2009 Budget Speech, which committed British taxpayers to record levels of debt, TaxPayers' Alliance Chief Executive Matthew Elliott said: “This Budget commits taxpayers to a terrifying amount of debt that will burden ordinary families for decades...

Charting a crisis So once again, it's taxpayers to the rescue. The bill will be big and will have several chunky elements: Debt - governments are taking on a stack of debt from floundering banks; in the US the transfer...

Charting a crisis So once again, it's taxpayers to the rescue. The bill will be big and will have several chunky elements: Debt - governments are taking on a stack of debt from floundering banks; in the US the transfer is adding hundreds of billions to taxpayer debt; here in the UK we've already got the Crock's £100bn, plus whatever implicit guarantees Brown may have given Llo...

... and by extension, The Goblin King, Merkel, Sarkozy and half the Western World. Chicago Business School Professor Luigi Zingales, argues that bailing out the financial system with taxpayers’ money is wrong. He discusses an alternative – forced debt-for-equity swap or debt-forgiveness. Via Mark's Any.

Now I thought that would get your attention. Well lets face it we are all - after the bidding war with debt for votes is over - going to have to pay more tax. Proposal 1: A national mortgage( or debt) tax : The Debt raised should be visibly paid back and calculated for each tax payer. A proportion of income tax should be re-badged as debt repayment tax and at the end of each year all taxpayers sho...

What happens when you borrow too much Is there any private debt Brown/Darling won't force taxpayers to guarantee? On top of the £6 trillion of bank debt he's already taken on, yesterday he started on the £1.5 trillion of household debt. True, the details of his £400 grand mortgage interest guarantee scheme seem particularly half-baked even by his standards, but the prin...

Claims from The Taxpayers’ Alliance website that the fiscal stimulus measures contained in the Pre Budget report would result in double the national debt Britain incurred from the the Great War have been debunked by Don Paskini: “To get the figure of £255bn, the Taxpayers’ Alliance used the retail price index measure. As an economically valid

Tax Payers’ Alliance research shows World War l defeat of Kaiser bill was cheaper than Brown’s debt mountain. Total Debt increase 1914 - 1919 (2007 value): £255,106,544,018 Total Debt planned 2008/09 - 2013/14 (PBR): £512,000,000,000 “It is staggering that the Government plans to take on more than double the debt we needed to win the First World War.

The government is taking too much financial risk. Taxpayers are being dragged further and further into massive debt. A couple of years ago the government claimed that national debt was around £500 billion, or