By City AM reporter Language matters. So the framing of our debate ahead of the budget – in which every tax cut is described as costing a billion here or a billion there – matters too. Indeed the acceptance that a tax cut “costs” anything at all is an ill wind for those, like this paper, who think government is generally better smaller than larger. What is tax? It is the handover of a part of one’s cash to fund the state, through functions and extent of which we battle over at the ballot box. A tax ‘cut’ involves the government taking less of that cash, which is generated at source not by the …