{"id":10175,"date":"2011-05-25T19:11:46","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T18:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=10175"},"modified":"2011-05-25T19:11:46","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T18:11:46","slug":"please-dont-spin-us-lies-barack-we-dont-appreciate-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/05\/25\/please-dont-spin-us-lies-barack-we-dont-appreciate-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Please don&#8217;t spin us lies Barack, we don&#8217;t appreciate them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/may\/25\/barack-obama-bolsters-transatlantic-relationship?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Westminster Hall today said<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In an era defined by the rapid flow of commerce and information, it is our free market tradition, our openness fortified by our commitment to basic security for our citizens that offers the best chance for prosperity that is both shared and fair.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I'm sometimes \u00a0asked why I do not stand for electoral office. \u00a0My wife came up with the explanation some time ago: \u00a0I am really bad at lying.<\/p>\n<p>So let's call Obama's bluff: we do not have a free-market tradition. \u00a0The large companies that dominate our markets exploit monopoly power, hide profits in tax havens, and delight in the use of tariff barriers inside Europe and the USA to protect them from competition.<\/p>\n<p>Opacity is the watchword of our accounting profession. \u00a0 That is designed to destroy economic well-being.<\/p>\n<p>And note the words 'basic security'. \u00a0That's right. For ordinary people there is, at best, basic security. But for the wealthy there is the whole force of the state to back up their property rights.<\/p>\n<p>There may be prosperity, but let's have no pretence that it is shared, or fair. It isn't. \u00a0It really doesn't make sense to lie in politics when it is as obvious as this. \u00a0So please don't do it Barack Obama: \u00a0it doesn't increase your appeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama in Westminster Hall today said: In an era defined by the rapid flow of commerce and information, it is our free market tradition,<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/05\/25\/please-dont-spin-us-lies-barack-we-dont-appreciate-them\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,16,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-ethics","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}