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Originally Posted by tizmeinnit
You are certainly right that a lot of the focus is on benefit claimants he likes it that way stops people asking difficult questions on the more important issues
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The DWP bill is the UK's biggest so it's bound to be the focus of attention isn't it? Wherever cuts fall one group or other will say they're being attacked. Remember the Granny Tax? Is the only answer no cuts, no matter what? So HMG carries on spending more on the NHS and more on welfare etc., where do the long term savings come from? Would everyone be happy to pay more tax or are we going to ask the better off and companies to pay more tax when there's evidence that increasing higher rate taxes tends to lead to lower overall revenues in one way or another by hitting investment and encouraging avoidance.
Scrapping foreign aid would be very popular amongst voters so if HMG just wanted to be cynical and buy some much needed votes at home why don't they do that?
It'd be great if there were easy and pain free answers to all our woes but I seem to recall that being pretty much what the last lot said and where did that lead us?