Reply #51: It's depressing that people who consider themselves liberal say things... [View All]

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...like that.

Baby bonds are not something they're giving to people with children so much as they're something they're giving to people. We all start as babies. Baby bonds is an idea that progressive DEMOCRATS in the US have argued for, and somehow when Blair does it, it's suddenly conservative and ineffective? Come on. At very low cost to society, it encourages to save so that at age 18 you have 40,000 bucks to spend on a home or college education so that you don't make socially unproductive choices (like going into unsupportable debt or skipping college). The social payoff is going to greatly offset the social costs. I can't believe anyone considering themselves liberal doesn't see the advantage of this.

Baby bonds or no baby bonds, Labour has already raised salaries and lowered unemployment, and it's the poorest people in the UK that have seen the biggest increases in salaries.

And the idea that cutting Afrian debt is bad...man...rhetorical backflips to ignore reality.