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Britain’s electioneering Budget
FT社评:英国的竞选预算

The chancellor stretches economic reality to make the public finances add up
在提高其政党支持率的政治压力和国家脆弱的公共财政的夹击下,英国财政大臣亨特设法制定了一份春季预算。

On the eve of World Book Day, it is perhaps fitting that Britain’s Chancellor Jeremy Hunt was forced into writing a bit of fiscal fiction. Caught between political pressures to boost his party’s popularity and the country’s fragile public finances, he managed to confect a spring Budget that cuts taxes, meets his fiscal rule and makes a start on some sensible reforms. The problem is that he has had to stretch economic reality in order to get there.

在世界读书日(World Book Day)前夕,英国财政大臣杰里米•亨特(Jeremy Hunt)被迫写了一些部政小说,这或许很应景。在提高其政党支持率的政治压力和国家脆弱的公共财政的夹击下,他设法制定了一份春季预算,削减了税收,符合他的财政规则,并开始了一些明智的改革。问题在于,为了实现这一预算,他不得不对manbetx20客户端下载 现实做些文章。

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