Most commentators appear to have taken official estimates of the scale of the fiscal stimulus in 2013 entirely at face value. At the same time, they are ignoring the elephant in the room – the planned doubling of the consumption tax in two stages in 2014 and 2015 that would amount to massive fiscal tightening.
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