Where’s the money coming from, Gordon?
The Tories drew blood on tax this week
ASSUMING that the economy grows at the rate that the Treasury thinks it will, and assuming that the government keeps on increasing public spending at the rate it plans until 2003, Labour will need to raise taxes during the next Parliament. But how, without infuriating the middle-class voters who will vote Labour back into power on June 7th?
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Where’s the money coming from, Gordon?”
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