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Looking at Labours list (that Beanz posted), most of those things seem quite good and sensible things.

The problem, for me anyway, is that all those things cost billions and billions of pounds. Where's the money going to come from?

Labour have usually been a 'spending' government and that's the beauty of alternating governments because the Tories traditionally cut spending.

Both either spend or cut too much, so regular government changes tend to mean we get about the right amount of spending v cuts.

Ive never quite forgiven Gordon Brown for ruining all our pensions and selling all our gold reserves at their lowest value to fund his spending promises.
It's true X. It would be great to see everyone be equal although greed would not allow that anyway but is it governments job to do this? How big do these deficits go and how much do these programs feed the government as well as have people become over reliant on the entity. 20 trillion dollars is what we have racked up doing that. We borrow 100,000 dollars every minute and there is no end to these social programs. Men are not angels so they need government but the government should be limited because men are not angels. So said James Madison anyway. I payed 8,000 dollars in deductions on one job plus sales tax, plus property tax, plus car tax, plus capital gains, plus sales tax and my wife makes much more than me. We probably paid 25,000 in taxes if not more. What the fuck? I don't mind paying my share but I'm middle class. It becomes harder and harder to maintain. One crisis can wipe u out