The England captain cut, drove and pulled eight fours and a six from Hilfenhaus that floated over long leg and into the old pavilion.
If the tax cut drives the whole debate toward a choice between which programs benefit which classes of people, Republicans will deplore the dangers of class warfare.
Expectations of Thursday's rates cut drove the pound down 1.0% against the dollar, buying $1.4766, from $1.4915 late on Tuesday.
Bell, who scored 109 in both the second innings at Trent Bridge and first at Lord's, showed no remorse as he cut, drove and swept his way to a 36th Test fifty.
"Cuts driven by ideology – not by what's right for families and for the country," he said, describing what he claimed was the Conservatives' policies.
In the first quarter of this year, government spending fell at an annual rate of 8.4 percent, after a decrease of 14.8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012 — with the cuts driven by sharp declines in military spending.
This is a line you hear in speeches roughly as often as "the answer is simple!" There were the artful new cliches, such as his favourite, "progressive austerity", which meant cuts, but cuts "driven by generosity of spirit".
Public spending cuts, driven by the dwindling population and shrinking inhabited area in a downward spiral – vicious, but bureaucratically logical – have left Detroit with services so threadbare that long stretches of street lights have been turned off.
But the cuts drive people outside the city, he said.
The roots of the crisis go back to 2001, when massive tax cuts drove the federal government from large-scale surpluses to huge deficits.
