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The left side of the Laffer curve
via CentreRight by Peter Franklin on February 13, 2008
Tax-cutting Tories love the Laffer curve. Just in case your memory needs refreshing, Mr Montgomerie has a helpful link here.Laffer's key insight is that after a certain point, tax increases act to reduce government income due to avoidance, evasion and the deadening effect on the economy. Thus by cutting taxes one can actually increase government revenue, the upshot being that tax cuts pay for...
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Sticking to Brown's spending plans is beginning to look like fiscal suicide
via CentreRight by Dan Lewis on February 13, 2008
It's worse than we thought Guv !Britain's public finances are deteriorating faster than anyone, Tories, Labour or LibDems, expected. The National Debt has balooned to £650 billion from £315 billion in 2001/2002. And the revelation that funding this debt is now practically equal to the annual defence budget ought to be pause for some sober reflection. What's even more worrying is...
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Obama is the Democratic nominee
via CentreRight by Daniel Hamilton on February 13, 2008
... her, ever, back to even in terms of pledged delegates. This is not about votes -- it's about delegates"I think he's right. For Clinton to even narrowly win the nomination she would have to capture around 60% of the remaining delegates with this figure increasing further if, as expected, Obama wins his birth state of Hawaii next week. Looking ahead to March - and mindful of the fact ...
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How long is "temporary"?
via CentreRight by Simon Chapman on February 18, 2008
...as in "temporary public ownership"? Months? Years? If Northern Rock is still nationalised in public ownership on, oh I don't know let's pick a date or two at random, Thursday 7 May 2009 or Thursday 6 May 2010, will that still be temporary?There may have been some immediate pain for Labour in using the "n" word today, but today was always going to be painful. The "temporary public...
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Is Labour's bank nationalisation legal?
via CentreRight by Simon Chapman on February 18, 2008
Anatole Kaletsky has his (severe) doubts. Charlie Whelan doesn't think so (hat-tip the red box).And if it is illegal under EU rules, what then?
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Questions on Northern Rock
via CentreRight by Greg Hands on February 19, 2008
With no electoral mandate of his own, Gordon Brown has decided instead to start fulfilling the pledges made in the 1983 Labour Manifesto. This is what he signed up to then: We expect the major clearing banks to co operate with us fully on these reforms, in the national interest. However, should they fail to do so, we shall stand ready to take one or more of them into public ownership. This will...
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Do the public want higher or lower public spending, lower or higher tax
via CentreRight by Matthew Sinclair on February 20, 2008
In September last year a poll (PPT, pg. 25) for the TaxPayers' Alliance by YouGov found that 64% of people think that the Government spends and taxes too much against 18% who think the balance is about right and just 4% who would support more tax and spending. Today, a Guardian ICM poll contradicts that with its finding that 51% would prefer continued public spending against only 36% who...
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Barak, Borgs and democracy
via CentreRight by Julia Manning on February 28, 2008
For some strange reason Sam, I decided to google 'Borg' and 'all or nothing' tonight.... And the extraordinary thing is that the one of the top links was to a site on Centreright-favourite topic Barak Obama - is he a Borg?! It makes compelling reading, for conspiracy theorists and insomniacs.However this does raise the much more serious issue of transhumanism - the...
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Canada-UK Trade: you don’t need a treaty to trade?
via CentreRight by Jim McConalogue on March 10, 2008
To celebrate Commonwealth Day, Brent Cameron has written a paper (published by Global Vision but not yet linked), entitled Building the Transatlantic Bridge: The potential for Canada-UK trade. It argues that, under the terms of globalization, the global economy is undergoing a state of evolution in which new rules/networks are being established and new markets are being propelled into the...
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