And, besides, didn't he complicate the benefits system by forcing tax credits on anyone who would vote Labour?
They even received favourable coverage in the Daily Mail, and helped force tax avoidance on to the agenda.
By rigidly requiring a balanced budget each year, it would deepen recessions by forcing tax increases or spending cuts in a weak economy.
Aid groups praised Mr Cameron for forcing tax and transparency on to the G8's agenda but said the summit had fallen short.
Mitchell Pally, vice president of the Long Island Association, the business and civic organization, said: "The debt is totally absurd, forcing tax dollars to be spent on that instead of services".
Even if regulators somehow did design a perfect regulatory system, it would not last, simply because clever bankers would eventually find ways around it, just as people find ways to evade taxes, forcing tax law writers to constantly make changes.
Their opponents recall the words of Denis Healey, a former British chancellor, who suggested that the difference between avoidance and evasion was "the thickness of a prison wall .The public outcry is forcing tax administrators to rethink their policies.
Bill Gates Sr., Warren Buffett, members of the Rockefeller family have said it gives so much to so few that it will actually force tax increases, or cuts in Social Security and Medicare and other essential programs.
Officials fear that the need to cover retiree benefits could swamp the state's general budget, forcing tax increases or service reductions, and require some kind of cutback in the level of medical benefits offered to retirees.
All fall, Governor Bush argued that the amendment, the most restrictive in the nation, would cost $27 billion over eight years, so much it would force tax increases and "blot out the sun".
