They just do not agree where it should come from: a greater share of general taxation, higher taxes, an hypothecated "NHS tax" or charges, an (unpopular) idea floated this week by the rightwing thinktank Reform and the non-political King's Fund.
Now you can have a debate about the speed at which spending plans are being cut, about their economic and social implications, about the balance of the priorities, about the extent to which any government might be able to push taxation higher than the levels achieved during the past generation.
Unlike left-wing populism, fascist populism did not attribute workers' hardships to big business and big landowners and did not advocate measures such as progressive taxation, higher pay for industrial and farm workers, protection of unions, and the right to strike.
Exorbitant labor cost increases in the early 1980s, an expansion of the public sector, higher taxation and high inflation dealt severe further blows to the Greek economy.
In the 90s Labour had only gradually abandoned its Old Labour inheritance, including nationalisation, marginal rates of taxation as high as 98%, higher levels of public spending and hostility to both the EU and nuclear weapons.
DfID has committed to spending half of its budget in fragile states and regions – a sum worth £5.5bn this year – where government access is limited, and the risk of fraud, looting, aid diversion and informal taxation is high.
Taxation was high, corporatist elements negotiated wages.
Nevertheless, the gender-based taxation favors high income women and penalizes low-income men.
Recall that this is a consequence that taxation harms high income earners relatively more.
As an academic, he would not mind hypothecated taxation for higher education, he says.
