#taxcuts — Public Fediverse posts

Deserved criticism, but I might add that what we've seen in the 2024 campaign is particularly crazy: add up each candidate's proposals and it'd be enough for a broad-based tax cut and/or benefit. So why not just do that?

#politics #elections #electoralpolitics #taxes #taxcuts #corruption #policy

https://reason.com/2024/10/24/neither-trump-nor-harris-wants-to-drain-the-swamp-they-want-you-to-join-it/

'#Budget plans risk ‘second lost decade’ of #LivingStandards, #JeremyHunt told

Exclusive: #JosephRowntreeFoundation finds widening gulf between demand for #TaxCuts and reality for millions struggling'

'...the budget risked keeping the #UK #economy locked on track to leave working families £1,900 a year worse off in 2029 than they were in 2021.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/04/budget-plans-risk-second-lost-decade-of-living-standards-jeremy-hunt-told
#ToryPoliciesInAction #Austerity #IdeologyBeforePeople