The Great Self-Taxed Product:Greetings card Charlie Watts and Mick Jagger

Charlie Watts and Mick Jagger

Brooklands motor racing circuit under construction

A p(r)etty scheme for reducing the taxes and paying off the National Debt

The various members of the royal procession are shown in five strips with text identifying them

The Great Self-Taxed Product:Greetings card Charlie Watts and Mick JaggerThe Great Self Taxed, 1873. The Liberal Chancellor of the Exchequer, Robert Lowe, makes off with a sack labelled Surplus 5,000,000. He is being heckled by a drunken representative of the working class. This cartoon refers to Mr Lowe's 1873 Budget. He started with a surplus that allowed him to cut 1d of Income Tax, reducing it to 3d in the pound. The labourer is drunk because Mr Lowe had exempted from taxation all hotel servants and all those who dealt