If you want to know why George Osborne wants to take us back to pre-war economics, this is why:

The graph is from Max Roser here, where all the working links can be found.

Sometimes explanations are easy to locate.

Source: Tax Research UK » The appeal of pre-1930s economics to George Osborne

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