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David Cheshire writes: The other insult to intelligence of course is the notion of painlessly and effortlessly pulling 6 billion "savings" out of the hat to finance a pre-election tax bung. Also - do business leaders like paying extra tax? Do they historically tend to back one party? Is the sea wet? >Have Your Say "The Treasury Mandarins, I am told, are weeping into their (Earl Grey) tea. Whatever happened to the age of austerity?" Philip Stevens, of HREF="http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2010/04/why-they-are-weeping-in-the-treasury/" ID="9999" STYLE="LINK_Inline">the Financial Times, says that when David Cameron made austerity his priority at the Tory conference last autumn "the applause in the Treasury was deafening - at least when Alistair Darling was safely out of earshot". But he claims that now, with all the talk of "efficiencies" not cuts - and even tax giveaways - well, "no wonder the mandarins wince".
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