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Wed 12 Dec 2009This budget will be tough but worst is yet to come
ANALYSIS:This budget, and the following three or four, will have to see public spending cut to the bone and taxes raised until the pips squeak, writes PAT McARDLE
Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offence
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