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The Kwasi budget: Have we all just got poorer?

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The New Labour Inheritance

In the cameron osborne years, even though therewere lots of arguments about austerity and whatever in its impact, they always pointed to the distributional analyses that we got from the red book. Over all, i the richest were paying the most, and the poor, in terms of what was happening to government policy, were benefiting the most. The charitable explanation is hidden n all this tax stuff is actually a massive bung to every family in the country on energy support. But i think the less charitable explanation,. from my point of view, is that listras genuinely believes, as the ia her greatt think, the institute of economic affairs is influencing this package so muchthat politics is really

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