the Republicans sounded more like this?

A future Tory government would look seriously at ending the "chronic injustice" of forcing less well-off people to pay income tax, as part of a concerted attempt to revive the party's tax-cutting tradition, the Conservative co-chairman, Lord Saatchi, said yesterday.

In an interview with the Guardian, to mark Michael Howard's 100 days as Tory leader, Lord Saatchi declared that it was "not right" to tax people living below the poverty line and then force them to go "cap in hand" to the state for benefits.

Ah, the good old days.