Conor Friedersdorf

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@UnderSneege So as you see it, a government that has $100 billion in tax revenue and spends $150 billion in expenditures is engaged in austerity if, last, year it spent $175 billion? — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 2, 2023

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

"There was never any austerity in the UK. It's a pure media fabrication that persists only because nobody cares to look at the data." https://t.co/bK8trZqlTO More: "The deficits were huge even right in the middle of the supposedly austere period." — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 2, 2023

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@DKThomp As I understand the argument of the piece it's not that the media fabricated a desire to spend less, but that what transpired was never accurately described as austerity... which raises the question of how we define it. That is, — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 2, 2023