Increase taxes for working people, or make the super-rich pay their fair share? The answer seems obvious – but not to Labour | Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah

Rachel Reeves has unnecessarily blocked her options of what to include in her budgetAll the signs suggest that the government will cling to a dangerous set of false choices at the budget later this month. Constrained by the debt and borrowing rules that she has imposed upon herself, the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, seems to think she only has three options: take benefits from those who are unable to work; tax those who work and are already struggling to make ends meet; or ask those who don’t