Unfunded tax cuts 'deeply unconservative', says Hunt ahead of Budget
The chancellor has played down expectations of tax cuts in Wednesday's budget, telling Sky News his spending plans will be "prudent and responsible".
Speaking to Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips, the cabinet minister it would be "deeply unconservative" to take decisions that were unfunded and increased borrowing.
We're well down the rabbit hole now. Presumably it would be 'deeply unconservative' to cut government waste and profligacy to fund those tax cuts. Apart from HS2 of course, but chopping that back isn't going to fund tax cuts for the peasants. Oh no - waste stays.
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This phrase "unfunded tax cuts" is relatively new, and very loaded. We can't allow you to keep any more of your own money, because we don't know where else we can get it from. We can't just, sort of, well, not spend it...
It’s a source of amazement to me that despite the manifold problems, disasters and calamities that surround us, somehow “they” still keep on borrowing money to pour down the bottomless pit of that absurd white elephant HS2. Is there no one in authority with the gumption to say Stop?
He has got things in the wrong order. Tax cuts are not "funded".
I do not decide what I will "fund" and then demand that my pension fund coughs up
First you decide what taxes will be And then you decide what what can be "funded".
Overseas Aid? Caring for the diverse new immigrants? Both these should come out of the same "fund". Helping the Ukraine reduce its future population? More pals in the House of Lords? More dosh for our Most Honourables in the Other Place? Another big Windfall Profit for our Pharma mates - but no Windfall tax? Cosying up to Sleepy Joe in the Middle East so that he will continue granting us more forests and very expensive gas?
I could go on.
But pothole repairs, or even roads fit-for-purpose are definitely not on the "funding" list.
Cupid Stunt comes to mind.
Sam - it is relatively new, probably aimed at making calls for tax cuts into 'far right' politics.
Peter - it's almost weird, but from what we see there is nobody in authority with the gumption to say Stop. It smells of endemic corruption.
Doonhamer - yes he has got things in the wrong order, which presumably is deliberate. It creates the impression that the government sets all priorities, even priorities over what happens to our earnings. Deliberate I'd say.
Doonhamer - yes he has got things in the wrong order, which presumably is deliberate. It creates the impression that the government sets all priorities, even priorities over what happens to our earnings. Deliberate I'd say.
I believe it is even worse than that. It's not just about Government priorities - it's about the Government's money and how they intend to farm our activities to provide the Government with its portion.
Arguments about how we want the Government to spend our money on things we want fall on deliberately deaf ears. Now I understand the Government has a difficult job to do but really they are no more than a large corporation who decide what priorities they wish to follow, no matter what the small shareholders wand to do.
When my wife met Rishi she thought him an agreeable young man. Then she asked him about HS2. Fail! "Oh, we've signed all the contracts, you see." Pah!
DJ - I agree, I have another post on similar lines which I've just posted. 'Unfunded' betrays an attitude within government where our pockets are there to cover their profligacy and our personal spending is the real profligacy.
dearieme - interesting, in which case Rishi could have proposed to sack all those who drew up, approved and signed the contracts. That he didn't tells us all we need to know about Rishi.
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