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Why the budget critics are focusing on the wrong numbers


Rob Hosking
Mon, 23 May 2011

Budget 2011 is best understood if it is seen as chapter two of budget 2010.

Once this is realised, some of the air of incompleteness around last week’s big economic event goes away, even if some of the wobbliness around the numbers does not.

The most important tax changes in last year’s

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Rob Hosking
Mon, 23 May 2011
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Why the budget critics are focusing on the wrong numbers
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