Blair's Legacy

Just in case you didn't realize he's a domestic liberal:

The report by Reform, the think-tank, said that the key policies of the Blair decade, such as high spending, increased taxes and a greater role for central government, had blocked public service reform and created new pressures on vulnerable groups such as the young.

In 2008-09 the tax burden will reach 38.1 per cent of gross income - its highest level for 25 years, Reform claims. This is one of a worrying "cocktail of factors" damaging the economic position of the young, it said.

Bush has laid the path for the Democrats to do the same, compounding the massive spending and entitlement increases of the Bush years with higher taxes and even bigger government. The next generation, as in Britain, will be faced with the bill.