{"id":26185,"date":"2014-09-26T07:00:07","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T06:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=26185"},"modified":"2014-09-26T07:00:07","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T06:00:07","slug":"war-proves-all-spending-is-a-matter-of-ranking-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2014\/09\/26\/war-proves-all-spending-is-a-matter-of-ranking-priorities\/","title":{"rendered":"War proves all spending is a matter of ranking priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am sure others will say it, but it's worth reiterating it: the decision to go to war today (and it will be nothing less than that) proves that all government spending is a matter of choice. To put it another way, it is about deciding what is important or ranking priorities.<\/p>\n<p>We can apparently afford war over Iraq and Syria.<\/p>\n<p>We cannot afford to make adequate provision for many disabled people.<\/p>\n<p>Nor can we properly care for many elderly people.<\/p>\n<p>And we cannot properly fund the NHS.<\/p>\n<p>And yet we can load Tornados with weapons knowing that there will be innocent victims and uncertain and undefined military and political gains, if any.<\/p>\n<p>We can afford to main and kill.<\/p>\n<p>Why can't we afford to care?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sure others will say it, but it&#8217;s worth reiterating it: the decision to go to war today (and it will be nothing less<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2014\/09\/26\/war-proves-all-spending-is-a-matter-of-ranking-priorities\/\"><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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26185","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=26185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}