ASI comments on tax credit cuts feature in The Daily Mirror and The Times

The Adam Smith Institute's blast against tax credit cuts has featured in The Daily Mirror and the The Times: From The Daily Mirror:

Even the right-wing Adam Smith institute came out against Osborne's cuts today.

Sam Bowman, the free market think tank's deputy director, said: "Working tax credits are the best form of welfare we have, and cutting them would be a huge mistake. The government has long claimed to want to make work pay for everyone, but cutting tax credits would disincentivise work and hurt those at the bottom of society."

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From The Times:

Adding to pressure from the right, the Adam Smith Institute and Institute of Economic Affairs both warned that cutting the credits in April would undermine incentives to work.

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ASI comments on tax credits feature in the Mail Online and the Yorkshire Post