The ratchet effect in public expenditure which Alan Peacock and Jack Wiseman decribed in 1961 is still going strong and the causality is: spending --> taxes, so start with the spending (View Post)
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” (View Post)
Sad to read a valedictory post from one of the best on this site. And may you recover your health and come back here in full fury and eloquence, the sooner the better (View Post)