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• Mathew on Monday: “We need to be bold” (Mathew Hulbert)

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• David Allen
  Tristan, Thanks for the link, which is interesting. Neidle's "taxes people want to raise" are ideas like wealth tax, which Neidle thinks wouldn't work well....
• David Allen
  Peter, In the 2025-2026 financial year, the UK government is expected to spend approximately £111.2 billion on central government debt interest. This repres...
• Peter Martin
  "If we pumped loads of money into schools and hospitals, and insisted on getting all the money by borrowing rather than taxing, the bond markets would righ...
• Tristan Ward
  @ David Allen "getting taxes out of our wealthy oppressors is just too hard". More importantly (possibly) is that it simply would not raise enough money t...
• David Allen
  Where Vince goes wrong, in my view, is the next step. If we can't buck the bond markets, then we have a simple choice. Raise taxes, or accept that we "can't a...