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Originally Posted by Big Brian
Well Osbourne has thrown a sprat to catch a whale by hinting on what's in the upcoming budget on Wednesday. He's painting a picture of doom and gloom as regards our economy. Obviously a trick to manipulate an IN vote.
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I don't think it's a trick. I mean it hardly looks good on him that he the economy continues to be rather stagnant and that he keeps having to revise his outlook and plans every six months. He is 6 years into the job now.
Besides you can see the economy is still rather concerning around the world. Asia has been really turbulent, the US fears a recession, Europe continues to muddle along between recession or flatlining growth.
This isn't all about Britain and the EU.
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Originally Posted by Big Brian
What angers me is he is planning on cutting disability benefits but as usual making the rich richer. Why doesn't her go after them in order to sort out the economy if it's as bad as he makes out?
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I agree he shouldn't cut disability benefit in order to fund a tax cut but we are talking about the 40p tax band which kicks in around £42,000. Hardly 'rich'.
Still I do wonder how he can continue to justify cutting more and more of disability benefit. He had public support for job seekers allowance, child benefit and so on but going after people who are disabled is pretty risky and inhumane. This benefit is a budget which allows a greater degree of personal liberty from what i understand, i.e money to account for the additional costs facing disabled people such as taxi fares instead of buses, so why bother cutting that?
