Apparently, yesterday the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Andy Burnham, said that Tory proposals on tax (actually business regulation) meant that we would be cutting spending on schools and hospitals. Wasn't that thoroughly predictable and totally disingenuous?
As the last post pointed out and linked too, £14bn of this "tax cut" will actually come by not cutting any public spending at all, or cutting any tax. Simply by deregulating business, business will save masses of money which is good for them and ultimately good for the economy. For the business it feels like a tax cut of course, but on the balance books of the country it isn't a tax cut or a spending cut.
Burnham said, according to the BBC, that these proposals "directly undermines the spending pledges Cameron has been making". No they don't, businesses do not pay the Government a health and safety tax, they do not pay the Government a tax for each regulation they have to follow.
Update: I see the Mail on Sunday are pushing Labour's line in their headline. Jesus wept.
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