Budget 2012: Conservatives fight Lib Dems to claim credit for tax policies

It's a commonplace of Budget coverage to discuss the Chancellor's package in terms of theft, pilfering and picking pockets. Successive chancellors have been portrayed as masked robbers, cat burglars and footpads, sneaking away with a swag bag full of taxpayers' money. This one will be no different, but the victims of the theft in question [...]

None of the legislation does anything to cut government spending, or ever-increasing tax burden on the populace. What are our representatives-in-name-only trying to prove, and to whom? That they are obsolete, just as are the majority of governments around the world?

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