{"id":74191,"date":"2024-02-14T07:06:59","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T07:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=74191"},"modified":"2024-02-14T07:06:59","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T07:06:59","slug":"household-analogies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/02\/14\/household-analogies\/","title":{"rendered":"Household analogies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reminded this morning of this comment in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/aboutthebbc\/documents\/thematic-review-taxation-public-spending-govt-borrowing-debt.pdf?mc_cid=999c3c7cd7&amp;mc_eid=25b4ff7784\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">review of the impartiality of BBC coverage of taxation, public spending, government borrowing and debt<\/a> by Michael Blastland and Andrew Dilnot, published in November 2022.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-74192\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2024-02-14-at-07.04.16-550x236.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2024-02-14-at-07.04.16-550x236.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2024-02-14-at-07.04.16-768x329.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2024-02-14-at-07.04.16-600x257.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2024-02-14-at-07.04.16.png 1418w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I think they understate their case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reminded this morning of this comment in a review of the impartiality of BBC coverage of taxation, public spending, government borrowing and debt<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/02\/14\/household-analogies\/\"><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-74191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74191","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=74191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74193,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74191\/revisions\/74193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}