Who said that?
Why, George Osborne, in 2006.
He was wrong then.
And it looks like he’s learned nothing since.
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Tax research UK?You should at least admit to being a political website.
Ha ha. Didn’t another politician make an eternal fool of himself “Peace in our time”.
Truly a miracle. Next: “internal devaluation”, and, coming to the UK soon, it’ll devastate the town where you live. And all the others.
@william
All tax and all economics is political
So is life
Only neoliberals deny it
Which is why they can’t be trusted
@Dave Thomas
Devaluation may be exactly what is needed
What’s the problem
It will be a recurring certainty if we continue to a) spend money we don’t earn b) print and borrow the difference. How can it be a good thing when it destroys savings?
@woolley
Just go and read Keynes
And get out of the micro economics goldfish bowl that is constipating your thinking
You are utterly and completely wrong
@ Richard
OK. Well no doubt we will see. I hope for the sake of all of the people who are being encouraged to believe that the world owes us a living that you are correct.
@woolley
But that’s he last thing Keynes says
It’s about earnings livings
The free riding of neoliberalism is the opposite you need to worry about
@Richard Murphy
Wouldn’t it be better then to sub the title “Richard Murphy on tax, economics and politics” or just “Richard Murphy on politics”.
Because by using “tax and economics” you make out that it is objective, which of course you spend your whole time claiming it is not. At least be intelectually honest.
@Harry Judd
I will repeat, all taxes and all economics is completely subjective and highly political. Anyone who claims otherwise as a charlatan. Yes, that means that all neoliberals are charlatans, by definition