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  Well GaryC - if the last government had not driven the economy into the ground with excessive borrowing and spending then we would be in a different position now.
  
  But back to the actual quote.
  
  The real absurdity was the Brown idea that child poverty is measured only in money. That if you had perhaps £1 less a year you would be in poverty or £1 more not in poverty.
  
  Real child poverty is about more than money. It is about abuse, neglect, drugs, a lack of a father figure and so on. To measure it purely in financial terms is absurd, how money is spent and lifestyles are relevant here as well.
  
  The idiotic aside at the bottom also demonstrates the lack of any kind of intelligent thought from the 'left'. If you want to increase the amount of tax the rich pay then the tax rates need to be reduce to under 40p. Increasing rates reduces the tax-take. You can therefore blame Brown's last minute political tax hike to 50p for some of the cuts and the coalitions cowardice in not reducing it.

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