{"id":4218,"date":"2009-07-03T10:45:46","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T08:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=4218"},"modified":"2009-07-03T10:45:46","modified_gmt":"2009-07-03T08:45:46","slug":"no-need-to-slash-and-burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/07\/03\/no-need-to-slash-and-burn\/","title":{"rendered":"No need to slash and burn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/uk-politics\/2009\/07\/spend-tax-public-cuts\">New Statesman - We hate to say it, but there is a third way<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There&rsquo;s no ignoring the hole in the public finances, and the left should show that it, too, can be thrifty in straitened times. But that doesn&rsquo;t mean timidly accepting the slash-and-burn, smaller-state proposals of the Tories. There is another way. One that combines sensible spending cuts with obvious, even popular, tax rises. Once, you might have called it the Third Way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Delighted to see work I've done for the TUC and TJN contributing to this debate.<\/p>\n<p>The Tory plan for tax cuts will be a disaster - for governemtn finances, the people of the UK and the future.<\/p>\n<p>The way forward right now is for the government to spend. The multiplier means that it will pay for itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Statesman &#8211; We hate to say it, but there is a third way. There&rsquo;s no ignoring the hole in the public finances, and the<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/07\/03\/no-need-to-slash-and-burn\/\"><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-4218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4218","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=4218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}