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Editorial: Whoever wins the next election will have to spend money to repair the damage done after 13 years of Conservative party rule
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Today's Guardian editorial looks at the public sector pay deal and worries that it's only a short-term solution, and that longer term there's going to be a need to increase taxation to pay for properly funded public services.
And this, politically, is a significant dividing line: we've already got taxes at a historically high level as a proportion of GDP, and many people think that any further increase will be unpalatable.