{"id":51099,"date":"2020-06-29T07:41:37","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T06:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=51099"},"modified":"2020-06-29T07:41:37","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T06:41:37","slug":"yougov-have-not-got-modern-monetary-theory-as-yet-so-theyre-asking-the-public-all-the-wrong-questions-on-the-recession-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/06\/29\/yougov-have-not-got-modern-monetary-theory-as-yet-so-theyre-asking-the-public-all-the-wrong-questions-on-the-recession-to-come\/","title":{"rendered":"YouGov have not got  modern monetary theory as yet, so they&#8217;re asking the public all the wrong questions on the recession to come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is depressing:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If measures are needed to be put in place to reduce the deficit, which best fits your view?<\/p>\n<p>Mainly tax rises: 47% (+17)<br \/>Mainly spending cuts: 27% (-25)<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YouGov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@YouGov<\/a>, Jun 2020<br \/>Chgs. w\/ Dec 2009<br \/>h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimesRadio?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@timesradio<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/R41Gu8nkhs\">pic.twitter.com\/R41Gu8nkhs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Britain Elects (@BritainElects) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BritainElects\/status\/1277490108124594176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>What's depressing is that the wrong questions were asked.<\/p>\n<p>It does not seem as if the option to 'spend to stimulate the economy to get us out of the crisis' was on the agenda.<\/p>\n<p>And nor was 'The deficit does not matter: jobs do'.<\/p>\n<p>That's what's really depressing: that as yet we have not even got the required narrative before the public so that they can choose it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is depressing: If measures are needed to be put in place to reduce the deficit, which best fits your view? Mainly tax rises: 47%<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/06\/29\/yougov-have-not-got-modern-monetary-theory-as-yet-so-theyre-asking-the-public-all-the-wrong-questions-on-the-recession-to-come\/\"><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":[35,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-modern-monetary-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51099","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=51099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}