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Spending other people’s money

Politicians are playing us for mugs

3 April 2021

9:00 AM

3 April 2021

9:00 AM

Spending other people’s money has to be among the easiest things in the world to do. Politicians do it all the time, fudging the fact that it’s not the government doing the spending, rather it’s conscripting taxpayers, both current and future, into doing the spending.

And now Covid has presented month upon month of salad days during which politicians spent like it could never go out of fashion.

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