{"id":23308,"date":"2013-12-05T13:08:44","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T13:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=23308"},"modified":"2013-12-05T13:08:44","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T13:08:44","slug":"what-george-did-not-do-in-the-autumn-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/12\/05\/what-george-did-not-do-in-the-autumn-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"What George did not do in the autumn statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These things were not addressed in the autumn statement:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The bedroom tax<\/li>\n<li>The falling incomes of those on benefits<\/li>\n<li>The lack of business investment in the UK<\/li>\n<li>The increasing national debt - to continue until 2019, and almost certainly afterwards<\/li>\n<li>The falling income of the self employed<\/li>\n<li>The vast majority of the tax gap<\/li>\n<li>Cuts in staff at HMRC which deliberately drive the need for austerity<\/li>\n<li>Zero hours contracts<\/li>\n<li>The living wage<\/li>\n<li>Increasing personal debt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I could go on, and on.<\/p>\n<p>This was an autumn statement that did not tackle the reality of life for most in this country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These things were not addressed in the autumn statement: The bedroom tax The falling incomes of those on benefits The lack of business investment in<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/12\/05\/what-george-did-not-do-in-the-autumn-statement\/\"><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-23308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23308","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=23308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}