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Your support makes all the difference.SO THE Nicholas Budgens of the Government are whingeing about how unconstitutional would be the windfall tax on the privatised monopolies referred to in your article "Blair hints at Labour tax cuts" (24 September). They suggest that it is wrong to make a deal and then, once settled, demand further payment.
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