{"id":4790,"date":"2009-09-16T12:18:06","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T10:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=4790"},"modified":"2009-09-16T12:18:06","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T10:18:06","slug":"public-spending-cuts-ineffective-unnecessary-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/09\/16\/public-spending-cuts-ineffective-unnecessary-dangerous\/","title":{"rendered":"Public spending cuts: ineffective, unnecessary, dangerous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.touchstoneblog.org.uk\/2009\/09\/public-spending-cuts-ineffective-unnecessary-dangerous\/\">Public spending cuts: ineffective, unnecessary, dangerous | ToUChstone blog: A public policy blog from the TUC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Politics seems to be on a collision course with economics at the moment.  With the right-wing press screaming for cuts and the polls showing a majority of voters agreeing, the main parties are now positioning themselves as cutters.<\/p>\n<p>This is not democracy at its best.  The arguments against any major and urgent cuts programme are extremely strong but they are now being crowded out by a debate that is shaped by the desire to win the political rather than the economic battles ahead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Adam Lent argues, with considerable effectivness, against the emerging political concensus that will harm us all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public spending cuts: ineffective, unnecessary, dangerous | ToUChstone blog: A public policy blog from the TUC. Politics seems to be on a collision course with<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/09\/16\/public-spending-cuts-ineffective-unnecessary-dangerous\/\"><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":[35,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-tuc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790","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=4790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}