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Anh 005 có nguồn tin nào nói chi tiết rõ ràng lý do bà thủ tướng Truss từ chức không. Tôi gắng tìm hiểu thì chỉ biết đại khái là bà ra chính sách cắt giảm thuế và đi muợn tiền để bù đắp lại khoản thâm hụt do giảm thuế. Và do đó mà thị trường tài chánh Anh bị hỗn loạn, đồng bảng Anh tuột giá thảm hại.

 Theo mình hiểu vấn đề của việc cắt giảm thuế, là cắt giảm thuế của người giàu, chứ không phải chính sách chung, nhưng lại không có sách lược bù lắp, khiến thị trường tài chánh mất lòng tin và kéo theo các tác hại.

Anh đọc đoạn tóm tắt này của tờ Time:

"How did it come to this? The simplest explanation is that Truss, who campaigned on a platform to deliver “growth, growth, growth,” achieved just the opposite. Her signature package of £45 billion ($50.6 billion) in unfunded tax cuts, which disproportionately favored the country’s wealthiest, succeeded only in crashing the pound, spooking the markets, and undermining Britain’s credibility around the world. Rather than assuage the concerns many Britons had over rising inflation and skyrocketing energy bills, Truss’s government simply gave them more to worry about, including rising mortgage rates and an economy in peril.


In the days leading up to her resignation, Truss conceded that she had made mistakes in going “too far and too fast” with her economic reforms. But perhaps the biggest mistake Truss made was in assuming that growth was Britons’ main priority. Indeed, the prevailing concerns are the cost of living crisis and the economy, followed by climate change, the NHS, and immigration. After six years of instability, precipitated in part by Brexit and made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, perhaps what the British people really need is a sense of certainty. In Truss’s rise, and in her political downfall, that remains elusive."

/* nguồn: https://time.com/6223365/why-liz-truss-resigned/