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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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I see, via Autonomous Minds, that the public is much less supportive of tax and spend than they were a few years ago according to the "British Social Attitudes" survey.
Maybe, just maybe, the great British public has its own mind on what roughly the right level is?
A bit more than under the Tories maybe, and about as much as under Labour in 2001, but a lot less then now.
I voted Labour in 2001 because they'd kept public spending down while the economy was growing and debt-to-GDP was falling. In the meantime, the whole LibLabCon is completely off the scale of what might be considered 'good' public spending - about 35% seems a reasonable target.
Maybe, just maybe, the great British public has its own mind on what roughly the right level is?
ReplyDeleteA bit more than under the Tories maybe, and about as much as under Labour in 2001, but a lot less then now.
I voted Labour in 2001 because they'd kept public spending down while the economy was growing and debt-to-GDP was falling. In the meantime, the whole LibLabCon is completely off the scale of what might be considered 'good' public spending - about 35% seems a reasonable target.