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	<title>Steve Baker MP &#187; Government</title>
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	<description>One life. Live it.</description>
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		<title>The case for tax simplification</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/09/the-case-for-tax-simplification/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the tax fiasco continues, we might ask what is to be done to prevent this in future.
I am not surprised amounts of tax were miscalculated. I personally worked on a project to encode a corporate tax return for electronic submission when we found the rules were incompatible. It wasn&#8217;t possible to submit a valid ]]></description>
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		<title>Equitable Life update</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/07/equitable-life-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At 13:00 today, I attended a busy Westminster Hall debate on Equitable Life secured by Nicola Blackwood MP, to which the minister, Mark Hoban MP, responded.
Nicola covered the situation incisively. Many of us made an exception to sign the Equitable Life pledge during the campaign and we do expect it to be fulfilled. Many older ]]></description>
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		<title>How can we re-think government to deliver more for less?</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/07/how-can-we-re-think-government-to-deliver-more-for-less/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 15:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via HMT &#8211; Spending Challenge, an attempt to &#8220;crowd source&#8221; government spending:
The Spending Challenge is your chance to help shape the way government works. We need to reduce the deficit by cutting public spending in a way that is fair and responsible &#8211; and you can help.
It could be something small that is quick and easy ]]></description>
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		<title>Capital Gains Tax</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/05/capital-gains-tax/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/05/capital-gains-tax/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 13:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Concerned constituents &#8212; including basic rate taxpayers, pensioners and private residential landlords &#8212; have written to me about the Government&#8217;s proposed changes to Capital Gains Tax (CGT). In this post, I will set out details of the tax, the proposal, the arguments and my position.
I conclude that the way to raise CGT revenues is to ]]></description>
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		<title>The State Opening of Parliament</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/05/the-state-opening-of-parliament/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 12:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Broken Economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I found myself standing by the exit into the aye lobby for the state opening of Parliament. The text of the Queen&#8217;s Speech, for which I was lucky to be able to enter the House of Lords, may be found here:
The Queen, seated on the Throne and attended by Her Officers of State, commanded ]]></description>
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		<title>The Rise and Decline of the State</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/05/the-rise-and-decline-of-the-state/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 18:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Cameron has said that the era of big government has run its course. The foreword to our manifesto sets out the rotten state of Britain (see also Butler) and the change we offer: from big government to big society.
What then is the history of big government? How did it come about? Has it run ]]></description>
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		<title>Bastiat &#8211; The State</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/05/bastiat-the-state/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/05/bastiat-the-state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 08:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stevebaker.info/?p=7377</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This post originally appeared at The Cobden Centre.
In the course of things, I had cause to quote Bastiat, a French classical liberal theorist, political economist, and member of the French assembly: &#8220;The state is the great fiction by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.&#8221; This prompted me to dig out ]]></description>
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		<title>Government and big pharma</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/01/government-and-big-pharma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stevebaker.info/?p=6643</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Via PharmaTimes &#124; EU to probe pharma over “false pandemic”, this deserves a longer post:
The WHO’s “false pandemic” flu campaign is “one of the greatest medicine scandals of the century,” according to Dr Wolfgang Wodarg, chairman the PACE Health Committee, who introduced the parliamentary motion. “The definition of an alarming pandemic must not be under the ]]></description>
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		<title>Social policy in the noughties</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/01/social-policy-in-the-noughties/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/01/social-policy-in-the-noughties/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 13:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In areas such as welfare reform, criminal justice and the voluntary sector, this government has got it badly wrong time and again
As the millennium dawned, record economic growth and stability gave Labour an unparalleled platform for social reform. Its intentions were commendable. Who could oppose &#8220;cutting the bills of social failure&#8221;; the unequivocal pledge on ]]></description>
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		<title>Not rearing pigs</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/12/not-rearing-pigs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/12/not-rearing-pigs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fun]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stevebaker.info/?p=6596</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend recently sent me this celebrated letter on the absurdity of bureaucracy. If you have not seen it, enjoy:

Rt Hon David Miliband MP
Secretary of State.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA),
Nobel House
17 Smith Square
London
SW1P 3JR
16 July 2009
Dear Secretary of State,
My friend, who is in farming at the moment, recently received a cheque for ]]></description>
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