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Some people are getting excited about paying tax. They’re salivating at the prospect of European Transaction Tax, which, though continuing to face opposition from the UK under both Labour and Conservative governments, is widely seen as a just way of increasing government revenue and enabling social justice. As readers to SEJ would know, a European [...]
The government under Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is seeking to frame the debate between itself and Hungary’s international partners, the EU and the IMF as the struggle between a valiant and democratically legitimated David (i.e. Viktor Orbán himself) and a multitude of sinister, illegitimately meddling Goliaths. Hungary won’t be told what to do by outsiders, [...]
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