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Whenever, march of 2021. you don't want to do that. what you really want to do, if you want to restore some confidence and stabilize the economy. how about a spending freeze and congress does nothing on the spending side, zero. the semi conductor thing needs to be looked at carefully. a $300 billion bill point number one. point two. semi conductor prices, which were high coming out of the pandemic, they are coming down. they are coming down in the private investment sector, private investment. there is over 200 billion dollars that has been invested in the chip sector. we don't need government...

Spoke to carl emmerson, from a leading economic research group. i asked how the promises that we have heard from various contenders to cut tax might be paid for. when rishi sunak was chancellor, we saw him announce a pretty considerable tax rises, some of which we have experienced, many of which we have experienced, many of which are ahead of us. a big rise in corporation tax next april, a freeze at the point at which both income tax and higher rate income tax kick in. they raised substantial sums for the government over the next few years. the question of why he was doing that, it was a combi...

Combination of on the spending side, he wanted to spend more on things like the nhs and social care, he wanted an end to austerity, the government did not want to be doing spending cuts elsewhere, and secondly, there was a desire to get the deficit, government borrowing down to normal levels, a desire not to cut spending but to increase elsewhere and it is hard to get the deficit down was what was driving the need for those tax rises. lets talk about — the need for those tax rises. lets talk about national _ the need for those tax rises. lets talk about national insurance in particular, that...

Right up to cabinet level. the business secretary, kwasi kwarteng, for example, is nervous about the fact that bp have said they are now going to look again at some of their investment plans for the uk. so the spending side of it is popular. the way the money is being raised is more controversial. we have heard the prime minister say in the past hour that he thinks this is a big bazooka package that will help redistribute wealth to people who need it the most. but the big question the chancellor is also facing is how long it could potentially go on for. he left the door open this morning to an...

Your situation changes, in regard to what you are entitled to, that can change as well. so if you have not looked at that for some time, it is worth looking at that again. there are lots of grants and support that people can access and it is worth considering talking to debt advice charities like the citizens advice bureau or national debt line who can help you understand what else it might be that you can access in your situation. that is on the income side. on the spending side, the advice there is, we will be familiar with it, looking at ways that you can cut your budget. that's very diffic...