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The Kwasi budget: Have we all just got poorer?

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Are You Worried About Rachel Reading to Day in Her State?

Hige answers a couple of questions from our listeners. One listener asks if the government is trying to shift the goal posts so far right that it will be hard for labour to get at her in future elections. Hige: I don't think she opposed any specific tax cut, apart from the forty five p maybe she came close to criticising,. but she didn't say she would restore the forty 5 p rate. The inevitable hit to public service - and i do believe that our already massively strained public services are going to get a hit. It's ar it's going to have to raise taxes in some way in order to do it. And also, because this is exactly what happened to

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