enormous cuts in payments to disabled people sit alongside a major tax giveaway to the super-wealthy. At the heart of this budget is unfairnessGeorge Osborne delivered a budget built on failure. He failed on closing the government deficit. He has failed on reducing the government debt. His politically precious but economically nonsensical target for a budget surplus at the end of this parliament is remaining intact only as a result of creative accounting,shuffling around billions in corporation tax revenues. Related: Budget 2016: magical thinking from charmed world of the chancellor | Jonathan Freedland Related: The Guardian view on the budget: a poorer country, a diminished chancellor | Editorial Continue reading...
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