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Originally Posted by Arragonis
Our current government did just that, albeit temporary ones to allow them time to implement public sector spending cuts. This has been enough to stop us losing our AAA rating and not even being at risk of losing it so far.
Temporary taxes tend to end up being permanent (income tax was introduced in the UK to fund a war against Napoleon, and its been there ever since) and the cuts are not reducing our debt, just slowing down it's rate of increase. Arguably also the cuts are in the wrong places.
Despite what I tapped earlier about behaviour being unchanged, one thing I have noticed from a few days travelling around is more people travelling slower - following trucks and so on. Its almost as if you need to fight to get a place just behind the truck  However overall traffic levels seem no lower. |
Lets not get all party politic on this
Are there cultural or social shifts that have affected:
a- Demand for goods?
b- Available work choices (subsistance vs consumer)?
Re the traffic- same volumes, same speeds, but smaller cars- lots of "Bluemotion this" "Hybrid that" getting hoored up the motorway at 80+mph..