The big lie about good government
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We Need a Bigger Public Sector
There's nothing in any economic text book that says the public sector shouldn't be above th particular size. The argument goes that if you raise taxes, or you levy new taxes, to fund a growth in the public sector it will drive business offshore and down market confidence. But there is no evidence to back up this sort of story. We also know that age three tax cuts will deliver tax cuts of nine thousand dollars a year to people earning over 200 thousands bachs a year. Yet, those stage three tax cuts cost 15 billion dollars a year when they come in. So we just get yes, the argument is that if we don't cut taxes, something terriblel happen, and no
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