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Jonathan Portes vs Bill Mitchell – Are tax rises now inescapable?

August 29, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Post-Covid, are taxes hikes essential to fund the future? Or should we abandon “deficit fetishism” and spend our way to prosperity? Read here Mural by Megan Wilson. Photo: victorgrigas / Wikimedia Commons

Jonathan Portes: Austerity really has hit poor people hardest – the figures prove it

March 14, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Still another study proving that austerity hits the poorest the hardest in the UK – and everywhere else for that matter. How many more such studies do we need before something changes. Under the Tories […]