Tax cuts will be a disaster
There is a fairer alternative to the government’s economic plan
One thing is clear from the government’s much hyped spring statement – it has learned nothing from the mistakes of the past.
Reading through the two ministers’ speeches you get the impression that the starting point of our current social and economic crisis was the giveaway McCreevy budgets of the early 2000s.
These budgets were indeed badly designed. They contributed significantly to the subsequent collapse of the economy in 2008.
But the causes ...
