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What stops a nation voting itself lower taxes?

If every unscrupulous politician can promise to lower taxes to get elected, what stops that?



Politicians tend to promise to spend more taxes on projects that will benefit some segment of the population. In the UK "more money for the NHS" is a definite vote-winner.




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