16 June

So...the proposed tax cuts seem popular. Because government is unpopular, and the silly myth that tax takes ‘our’ money off us. Around the world there’s been a rush to gut government, often through tax cuts which starve governments of funds. At the same time individuals -you and me - are paying more than ever for housing, health, education, transport and energy in particular. People don’t see the link? The more we gut governments, the more we pay for everything out of our own pockets, and the more society descends into chaos. We need to join the dots, government IS us, and we’re cutting it up into pieces and selling it to small groups of (often foreign, always rich) people, who then screw us.