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Public opinion polls taken in recent months have indicated that a large majority of citizens favours reducing the huge Federal deficit. There has been no public ground swell, though, for either raising taxes or cutting government services that affect middle-income living standards. Nor has a cry gone up against letting inflation whittle down income transfers to the poor.
First published in The New Leader, 13 January 1986.
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Davidson, L. (1990). Can We Afford to Balance the Budget?. In: Davidson, L. (eds) Money and Employment. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11513-6_23
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