Its been a big news week on both sides of the atlantic with the budget dominating the domestic agenda, and in the united states, the president s state of the Union Address and super tuesday. The latter, a series of primary votes in 15 states and one territory, crucial in selecting the candidates for this autumn s president ial election, pretty much confirmed what we already knew that were heading for a Rerun Contest of biden versus trump. The bbc s coverage elicited this response from graham, in chingford. Last week, we broadcast a plea from viewer alan watts for a ban on the word expected and on speculation in general in regard to coverage leading up to the budget. As we speculated might be the case, his appeal fell on deaf ears. So, do we have any sense of which taxes might be cut . The government wants a positive headline, so we understand they are carrying on with trying to cut personal taxes. Weve got the chancellor in two days time. If he was listening tonight, what are you hopin
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Economy and help families with permanent tax breaks. Labour will argue that any reductions will still leave people worse off because of the freezing of Tax Thresholds. Ben king reports. The background to todays budget has been gloomy, with the economy in recession. But it looks like the chancellor will still find room to cut taxes. The conservatives are trailing labour in the polls, and looking Forjeremy Hunt to give them some cheer in places like this, winchester, a seat the Lib Dems Hope to win. So what do people here think about tax cuts . I think it would be a good idea because it gives people more money to spend on what they want to buy. Realistically, people arent going to save that much money from a tax cut, whereas more money in Public Services means Better Health care services. Itsjust much more important. I would prefer not to have a tax cut, but to see more money invested in the community. If the Public Services were properly organised, theres more than enough money to do it
The first place. More on that breaking story on the bbc sport website. Two time winnersjeonbuk were held to a 1 1 by ulsan draw in the first leg of their all korean semi final of the afc Champions League. It tookjeonbuk less than four minutes to make the breakthrough as song min kyu made no mistake from close range. The hosts were handed a great opportuity to double their lead from the spot 16 minutes later when lee dong jun was fouled for a penalty but brazilian thiago orobo was unable to capitalise and it proved costly. Ulsan took full advantage of that reprieve as Lee Myung Jae equalised 14 minutes from time. The second leg is on march 12th. The Champions League returns later, with the first Quarterfinal Spots to be claimed. Paris st germain take a two goal lead to Real Sociedad in the second leg of their last 16 tie, while Bayern Munich have it all to do against lazio. They trail the serie a club by a goal to nil. Having fallen 10 points behind League Leaders Bayer Leverkusen in th