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I see no cuts

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I’m going to be banging on about our supposed cuts yet again and the rather troublesome financial mess we may be in, and I suspect I’m going to keep doing so at least until we stop digging. All those terribly terribly harsh cuts didn’t stop our net deficit growing to 10 billion last month, nor is it stopping the EU giving away another billion (just Euro’s this time) for people to build robot pets and nagware. Thankfully it’s not all gloom* one of our elected troughers has brought forward a motion that we shouldn’t illegally bail out the Eurozone , … Continue reading →

Where to cut?

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Rather jumping on a worn topic here, but it’s till puzzling me. So far it would seem that despite all the hue and cry the actual total government spending is still increasing. Which from my own micro economic experience doesn’t tend to be a good way to get out of debt (though I’m told that apparently if your a government you can just borrow indefinitely and it’s all fine). The TPA observe that there’s only two ways for the government to reduce the deficit either spend less or tax us more so we spend less (Government cuts, or cuts for … Continue reading →

Another stroll

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It seems whilst I was away there was a bit of a demo by people who’d rather the government not make any cuts at all but presumably instead drive the country into penury as they don’t seem to be suggesting an alternative to not borrowing more money every month. Though it seems they are keen on anyone who seems to be “rich” paying some unspecified amount of tax as avoiding tax is bad (Not not evading – avoiding I.E. not paying more than you have to. I can but assume that the only way to not “avoid” tax is by … Continue reading →