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In the specific case of Reform I think it's definitely window dressing - nobody who's seen Farage operate for any length of time expects him to keep his word - but also more fundamentally that the Reform view of the world is one where Fujimori's maxim applies: "for my friends, everything, for my enemies, the law."
I.e. it doesn't matter what the upper tax rate is, it's not actually going to be enforced because under such a system laws aren't binding on the privileged.
So all it exists to do is provide a useful stick that can be used to beat wealthy people who are of the wrong opinions or ethnicity or who step out of line in some way. Likewise, they can talk about stricter rules about assault or street crime because it's tacitly understood that these aren't going to be applied against White people, and about a more generous welfare state because it's tacitly understood that this isn't going to be available to queers and Muslims.
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