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People are paying more tax but seeing public services cut, says thinktank
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Phillip Inman notes, with an unnecessary degree of glee, that the net result of economic stagnation and rising taxes is going to see taxes as a share of GDP reach a 70 year-high and low- and middle-income families with ever less disposable income.
And what's worse, despite paying more tax, we'll be in receipt of ever fewer public services in real terms. Happy days! Alternatively, you might have thought this sort of thing would serve as a trigger for a national conversation about plotting a way forward.