{"id":16356,"date":"2012-07-12T08:16:35","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T07:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=16356"},"modified":"2012-07-12T08:16:51","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T07:16:51","slug":"are-the-cbi-keynesians-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/07\/12\/are-the-cbi-keynesians-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Are the CBI Keynesians now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/ccc77458-cb72-11e1-911e-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fhome_uk%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct&amp;ftcamp=crm\/email\/2012711\/nbe\/InTodaysFT\/product#axzz20OAvqrMc\" target=\"_blank\">FT notes this morning<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The head of Britain\u2019s biggest employers\u2019 group has strongly criticised the government for the \u201creally disappointing\u201d implementation of its growth plan, asking: \u201cWhere are the diggers on the ground?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The comment prompts a number of thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>First it's a good question.<\/p>\n<p>Second, what this clearly shows is that the CBI think that the\u00a0government\u00a0is a\u00a0wealth\u00a0creator.<\/p>\n<p>Third, it clearly thinks the\u00a0government\u00a0is\u00a0failing\u00a0to\u00a0deliver.<\/p>\n<p>Fourth, if that's the CBI's view why does it still believe in\u00a0austerity?<\/p>\n<p>Fifth, if the CBI are Keynesian now, why isn't the government falling into line?<\/p>\n<p>Sixth, when the CBI says in future\u00a0government\u00a0is a burden on business\u00a0would\u00a0they kindly recall their dependency upon it, <a title=\"The state is the foundation of prosperity\" href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/07\/11\/the-state-is-the-foundation-of-prosperity\/\" target=\"_blank\">which\u00a0dependency\u00a0I noted yesterday<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the FT notes this morning: The head of Britain\u2019s biggest employers\u2019 group has strongly criticised the government for the \u201creally disappointing\u201d implementation of its<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/07\/12\/are-the-cbi-keynesians-now\/\"><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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16356","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=16356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}