{"id":93794,"date":"2026-07-11T15:35:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T14:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=93794"},"modified":"2026-07-11T16:08:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T15:08:34","slug":"your-opinion-please-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/07\/11\/your-opinion-please-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Your opinion, please"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of people have said positive things about the new visual image presentations of arguments I have tried over the last couple of days. I am still working on these and have significantly developed ideas around presentation, including alternative themes.<\/p>\n<p>Two broad visual themes have emerged from discussion so far, which are alternatives. They are as follows, reworking of the austerity \/ government debt theme from this morning.<\/p>\n<p>This is option A, which is popular in the team here (slightly to my surprise)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-93797\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Austerity-old-style-layout-550x825.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"825\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Austerity-old-style-layout-550x825.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Austerity-old-style-layout-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Austerity-old-style-layout-768x1152.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Austerity-old-style-layout-267x400.png 267w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Austerity-old-style-layout.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is option B:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-93798\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Austerity-Updated-550x825.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"825\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Austerity-Updated-550x825.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Austerity-Updated-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Austerity-Updated-768x1152.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Austerity-Updated-267x400.png 267w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Austerity-Updated.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Might you please ignore any text differences at this moment? They just show one idea can be spun in more than one way. I am interested in which style you prefer, or whether you think we need to try again. Might you vote in this poll?<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE<\/p>\n<p>I was asked to add version C, which is the first version, but on white. This is it. The poll has now been updated to allow for this.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-93801\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Austerity-old-style-white-550x825.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"825\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Austerity-old-style-white-550x825.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Austerity-old-style-white-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Austerity-old-style-white-768x1152.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Austerity-old-style-white-267x400.png 267w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Austerity-old-style-white.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"polls-453\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t<form id=\"polls_form_453\" class=\"wp-polls-form\" action=\"\/Blog\/index.php\" method=\"post\">\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_453_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"a9812cbd31\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"poll_id\" value=\"453\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Which of the options do you prefer, or would you rather we did something else?<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-453-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-1988\" name=\"poll_453\" value=\"1988\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-1988\">The old fashioned opton A<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-1989\" name=\"poll_453\" value=\"1989\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-1989\">The brasher option B<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-1990\" name=\"poll_453\" value=\"1990\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-1990\">Option C, which is option A on a white background<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-1991\" name=\"poll_453\" value=\"1991\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-1991\">Keep trying: you aren't there yet<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-1993\" name=\"poll_453\" value=\"1993\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-1993\">These do not work for me, whatever option you offer<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><input type=\"button\" name=\"vote\" value=\"   Vote   \" class=\"Buttons\" onclick=\"poll_vote(453);\" \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"#ViewPollResults\" onclick=\"poll_result(453); return false;\" title=\"View Results Of This Poll\">View Results<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"polls-453-loading\" class=\"wp-polls-loading\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-polls\/images\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" title=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\" \/>&nbsp;Loading ...<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of people have said positive things about the new visual image presentations of arguments I have tried over the last couple of days.<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/07\/11\/your-opinion-please-2\/\"><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":[35,240,174,224,223],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-images","category-modern-monetary-theory","category-neoliberalism","category-politics-of-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93794","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=93794"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93802,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93794\/revisions\/93802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}