tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-755834342571488774.post6937522751045856219..comments2024-03-20T08:05:26.167+00:00Comments on Bracknell Blog: I support the letter from Liberal Democrat CouncillorsMark Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00744387583593537268noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-755834342571488774.post-70667817743129014342011-02-11T16:50:49.348+00:002011-02-11T16:50:49.348+00:00public spending, the deficit, and the national deb...public spending, the deficit, and the national debt are all still going up significantly<br /><br />they are just not going up as fast as labour would have liked<br /><br />to talk of "cuts" as is fashionable in the media is just nonsense when public spending is still going UP so fast<br /><br />personally i would like to see real terms cuts, and a plan to bring the national debt and not just the deficit down to zero<br /><br />there are lots of tax raising measures which could be done to balance the books, tax foreign workers the same as brits, tax companies using tax havens to avoid tax, and so on<br /><br />there are lots of obvious cuts, cut the size of the MOD civil servants in half, cut the printing of leaflets in languages other than english by the public sector, stop foreign workers and their families in this country using the nhs or state schools make them pay commerical prices like brits do abroad<br /><br />common sense has gone and hype and bullshit has taken overAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com