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• Gordon Brown announces plans to name and shame public sector excessive earners

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Gordon Brown stole a chunk of Tory policy today when he announced plans to name and shame people earning excessive public sector salaries and hand the Treasury new powers to vet any public sector contract paying more than £150,000 a year. Publishing new plans for a "smarter state", Brown claimed "some senior pay and ...
  10 hours ago

• Civil servants lose pension perks

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Redundant civil servants today lost a key benefit when the government banned workers who lose their jobs from retiring on a full pension at 50 years old. Ministers said the generous benefit was out of step with other parts of the public sector and was no longer affordable. Tessa Jowell, the civil service minister, ...
  12 hours ago

• Paul Krugman Says Exactlly What I Was Saying About Cap-N-Trade

  
  Fear and Loathing In Georgetown — Authority: 531
  here. Which, of course, he should because this is Econ 101 analysis. The Cliffs Notes: What the basic economic analysis says is that an emissions tax...and a system of tradable emission permits, aka cap and trade, are essentially equivalent in their effects. The only difference is the nature of uncertainty ...
  12 hours ago

• Taxing bonuses is not the answer | Matthew Elliott

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 164
  Its tempting, but a windfall tax on bankers would be a short-term distraction. The pre-budget report should focus on the deficit Taxing bankers bonuses would be satisfying. While governments and regulators also deserve their share of the blame, bank executives did pretty comprehensively fail to manage their ...
  13 hours ago

• Quotes of the day

  
  Caveat Bettor — Authority: 433
  Once scientists set out to mislead the public, they can no longer expect to be trusted. End of story.-- Clive Crook Is John A. Paulson, the hedge fund manager who earned billions betting against subprime, a one-megahit wonder? -- Saijel Kishin I started praying when I came to Treasury. At Goldman, I didnt pray. ...
  14 hours ago

• How to tax the bankers

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 164
  Facing down the use of legal loopholes, such as introducing pay rises to replace bonuses, requires creative thinking Rumour has it that Alistair Darling is about to introduce a windfall tax on banks, and bankers . Its an idea that, as Larry Elliott has noted , is timely and appropriate. It is also fraught with ...
  14 hours ago

• NY Times’ Paul Krugman Calls for ‘Government Jobs’ Jobs Plan; Cites Union-Funded Study

  
  Big Government — Authority: 812
  Undeterred by stubbornly high unemployment rates, and a stimulus plan that has fallen flat, talk of a second stimulus package is growing louder.  But to shed the unsuccessful “stimulus” moniker, Democrats and government labor unions have adopted a “jobs plan.” Paul Krugman, the New York Times columnist ...
  16 hours ago

• Im Repeating Myself

  
  Fear and Loathing In Georgetown — Authority: 531
  ...but dont let the "market solution" or "power of the market" language fool you on Cap-N-Trade. A Cap-N-Trade system, if run properly with an auction, will simply achieve the same as a tax, except we wont know the cost of that tax in advance. The market power comes in by attributing a cost to carbon. This cost ...
  17 hours ago

• Gordon Brown steals David Camerons language - but fails to convince on his efficiency drive

  
  thetorydiary — Authority: 654
  Gordon Brown this morning gave a speech in which he appeared to be taking on board much of what Conservatives have been saying for a long time about the benefits of transparency in the Post-Bureacratic Age. He talked about publishing the salaries of those earning over £150,000 in the public sector and giving ...
  17 hours ago

• Labours class war rhetoric needs substance behind it | Michael White

  
  Politics: Politics blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 123
  The public mood is angry, and unsure what will happen or what to do The weekend army of pundits whose work consumes valuable quantities of blameless forest every Sunday devoted a lot of energy to Labours revived "class war" strategy yesterday, but little or none to its practical ramifications on the ground. Thus the ...
  18 hours ago

• Gordon Brown outlines additional £3bn savings over next four years

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  PM emphasises competing visions of Labour and Tories Gordon Brown today sought to draw up battle lines on the role of the state as he emphasised the "competing visions" of Labour and the Conservatives on the shape of public services in the drive to reduce the public finance deficit. The prime minister signalled the ...
  19 hours ago

• Dont believe the deficit hype

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 164
  This debt hysteria has no historical grounding. We can spend our way out of recession Its the spending, stupid. When the New Political Economy group, a gathering of progressive intellectuals and politicians, met to discuss the question "How big is the public deficit?" there was no shortage of bold, challenging and ...
  20 hours ago

• The Unending Racial Spoils System

  
  Doug Bandow — Authority: 130
  
  21 hours ago

• George Osborne draws up a five year roadmap for British business as Right warns him against tax rises

  
  thetorydiary — Authority: 654
  Two days ahead of the Pre-Budget Report, todays ConHome is very tax-focused. On CentreRight, Matt Sinclair of The TaxPayers Alliance warns that higher VAT will undermine the Tory claim to be a pro-poor party. VAT, Sinclair writes, "costs the poorest twice as much - as a portion of their income." The TPA wants a ...
  22 hours ago

• MM: you won’t believe your eyes when you see the size, of My Stimulus Package

  
  BadGalsRadio - RootsRock since 99 — Authority: 122
  Wow,, PeeWee Herman as a Tax Man ? Skrippers, Boats, Giraffes and Captain Morgan – all in one video ? She Wants My … Stimulus Package Uploaded by BarelyPolitical . – Click for more funny videos. “ All the ladies in the house want to be my spouse, for my stimulus package; you won’t believe ...
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• A little Christmas cartoon

  
  Caveat Bettor — Authority: 433
  Via Michael Panzer . [IMG: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_R4rqC5tzPrM/SxxX3x-884I/AAAAAAAACxw/r5lTzAvBD7o/s400/spend.cartoon.jpg]
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• Plan a make and do Britain and Labour could flourish | Jackie Ashley

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 164
  Instead of arguing over the nature of cuts, No 10 should offer a positive vision of an economy less reliant on the bankers The game is back on: Labour tails are twitching. After Gordon Brown s better Commons performance last week, and with Alistair Darlings pre-budget report this week, its a good time to review the ...
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• Robert P. Murphy–Videos

  
  Pronk Palisades — Authority: 474
    Unemployment: The 1930s and Today Bob Murphy, Author of the Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression & New Deal   Robert Murphy: Busting the Myth of Green Jobs object width=”425″ height=”344″>   Robert P. Murphy – BookTV: The Politically Incorrect Guide ...
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• Pre-budget report focus group: what Darling should do

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  We ask four experts what action they would like to see the Chancellor take NEAL LAWSON Chairman of thinktank Compass The chancellor needs to use the PBR as a turning point in British politics; to get the economy growing again and resist calls for wholesale cuts but do it in a way that makes the tax system ...
  2 days ago

• Tories press for single loan scheme

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  The Tories yesterday urged the government to overhaul measures meant to improve the flow of credit to small businesses amid a continued decline in lending. The shadow business minister, Mark Prisk, called for a simpler guarantee scheme to help firms through the recession. In a letter to the business secretary, Lord ...
  2 days ago

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