(November 15, 2010 at 6:57 pm)theVOID Wrote: People need to realise you either raise taxes or cut spending, because they're the only damn things that are going to affect the deficit in any significant way short to mid term. Why cut spending rather than raise taxes? Because it has both the short/mid term benefits AND a long term benefit in terms of reducing the deficit and increasing economic growth.
And really, borrowing 66% more over 3-7 years, while paying low taxes over the time you are qualified and earning all balances out if not becomes advantageous for the majority of all individuals who will pass their university programmes.
It'd be a start if the government was pressured into spending our taxes on things we actually need rather than wasting it on the kind of ineffective shit that Labour was so famous for over the last 10 tens, that'd be a real start.
Someone pointed out to me yesterday that regardless of those in "higher education" at university, its just delaying the inevitable unemployment they're going to face when they graduate anyway! Labour encouraged young people to go into training during their term, now labour are out and those people graduate and they can't find work! The typicla government policy is to DELAY anything until the end of their 4 year term to make it look as though they've achieved something by altering the statistics on a short term basis during that time with little regard paid to what happens afterwards.
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