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Europe's Real Big Spender; Quietly, Blair's "third-way" Britain is inflating government to virtually continental size.(Cover Story)
Byline: Rana Foroohar
Here's a pop quiz: guess which European government has expanded the public sector at a rate almost unheard of since the 1970s. It has added 50,000 new government jobs, boosted overall public spending by 63 percent and, during just the last four years, increased average pay among civil servants by 20 percent. Needless to say, the tax burden has increased (albeit by stealth), and the country has gone from fiscal surplus to deficit within five years. Statist France? No. Sclerotic Germany? No. The big spenders run a country that was once a model for "Third-Way" reform--Tony Blair's Britain.
This old-style Labour buildup in government ...
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