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Budget 2011: Reaction from the web
Dominc Browne rounds up the best web reaction to today's budget.
Budget 2011: Impact on jobs
The budget had very little to say about employment and unemployment, reports Richard Exell.
Budget 2011: The coalition must act on child poverty
Dominic Browne reports on Why the government must reverse its unfair policies that will hit the poor the hardest if the coalition is to make good on its child poverty pledges.
Tax on pension saving threatens more than just 2m local govt workers
Naomi Cooke argues that the coalition's tax on pension savings is arbitary policy making at its worst.
Now the coalition wants to cut its meagre bank levy
So much remains in doubt on bonuses. But what we know for sure is that the Treasury’s entire bank levy revenue estimates between 2011-2014 were made when bonus payments were anticipated to be higher than they had been in 2008. And the idea that the banks should be offered another sop when they should be paying for the mess they created simply demonstrates where this conservative coalition’s priorities lie.
Impact of the Budget on the inequality gap
Is the Budget good, bad or neutral on income inequality? Currently there is no official assessment of how Budget measures affect the gap between rich and poor.