Sentences with phrase «cutting public spending rather»

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Of course, it is true that population growth of any kind puts pressure on infrastructure, but in reality falling investment in public services represents a political choice by the current Conservative government, which has opted to spend the tax revenues generated by immigrants and refugees on tax cuts for businesses and reducing the deficit rather than expanding healthcare and education provision.

«I think we should also have been looking far more at progressive taxation rather than the kinds of cuts we're talking about here to public spending.

[6] Correspondingly, classical liberals tended to favour cutting taxes for the poorest in order to increase opportunity, contrasting with social liberals, who would rather see higher spending on public services and the disadvantaged in order to reduce income inequality.

In 2001 when a shadow Treasury minister he had to go into hiding during that year's election campaign after claiming the Tories wanted to cut public spending by # 20 billion rather than the # 8 billion they had publicly stated.

In a BBC interview, Mr Osborne pledged to reduce Britain's borrowing by cutting public spending — rather than increasing taxes.

His claim that unemployment will fall rather than rise in the course of this Parliament is based on the OBR assessment, rapidly rushed out to give ammunition to contest the anticipated Harman attack (incidentally providing the first suspicions about the OBR's objectivity), that whilst 600,000 public sector jobs will be lost by 2015 - 6 and a similar figure (though unspecified) in the private sector as a result of the public spending cuts, some 2.5 m jobs will be created over the same period in the private sector.

It seems rather incongruous that he should spend half of his time on seemingly narrow tasks like trying to get local councils to cut out waste and be more efficient at providing public services, and the other half of his time on «Communities» - ie religion.

Clegg tried to show a bit of Thatcherite ankle before his spring conference last weekend, praising the Great She - Elephant's victory over the trade unions as «immensely significant» and saying that the public finances should be repaired by spending cuts rather than tax rises.

Ed Miliband has suggested the party would put a larger emphasis on greater taxation rather than public spending cuts.

Mr Osborne has given an interview to the FT (of which there is more inside the paper here) in which he asserts that Labour's projected 1.1 % annual increase in public spending between 2011 and 2014 is «unsustainable» and that it will be spending cuts rather than tax rises which account for reducing the the fiscal deficit:

So we will be cutting back, not to close the # 175bn public - finance black - hole, but to spend the money on Tory winners rather than Labour winners.

The first reason is that, almost three years after Gordon Brown left Downing Street, more people still blame Labour rather than the Conservatives for the state of the economy and the public spending cuts that Osborne has imposed.

Voters showed a preference for public spending cuts rather than tax rises.

I cited yesterday on this site some of the big spending decisions that government will have to make sooner rather than later if it wants seriously to cut the rate of public spending.

Criticising the government's decision to tackle the deficit through cutting back on public spending, Mr Barber's alternative Plan B would tax higher earners more rather than targeting «the poorest and most vulnerable,» which, he argues, is what the current public sector cuts are doing.