"1) Repeating the bank bonus tax - and using "the money to build 25,000 affordable homes and guarantee a job for 100,000 young people"
2) Bringing forward long-term investment projects, such as schools, roads and transport, to create jobs
3) Reversing January's "damaging" VAT rise now for a temporary period
4) Immediate one-year cut in VAT to 5% on home improvements, repairs and maintenance
5) One-year national insurance tax break "for every small firm which takes on extra workers, using the money left over from the government's failed national insurance rebate for new businesses"
Source: BBC News - Labour conference: Balls unveils five-point growth plan
#5 is the only one making remote sense and he is a complete idiot suggesting cut in VAT would make any difference apart from massive loss of tax revenue.
2) Bringing forward long-term investment projects, such as schools, roads and transport, to create jobs
3) Reversing January's "damaging" VAT rise now for a temporary period
4) Immediate one-year cut in VAT to 5% on home improvements, repairs and maintenance
5) One-year national insurance tax break "for every small firm which takes on extra workers, using the money left over from the government's failed national insurance rebate for new businesses"
Source: BBC News - Labour conference: Balls unveils five-point growth plan
#5 is the only one making remote sense and he is a complete idiot suggesting cut in VAT would make any difference apart from massive loss of tax revenue.
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