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0 pointspjc5010y ago0 comments

That's mostly due to overall benefit levels staying constant or increasing due to unemployment, while taxation has collapsed. http://publicpolicypast.blogspot.co.uk/2011_05_01_archive.ht...

The austerity has largely been targeted at vulnerable people who don't actually cost very much in total.

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elektromekatron10y ago· 1 in thread

Given the problem is tax receipts collapsing, why has the government changed the rules to make it easier for companies to avoid paying tax in the UK? There is a limit to what can be considered pure incompetence. This looks more deliberately malign.

https://rwer.wordpress.com/2011/09/06/rwer-issue-57-richard-...

tome10y ago

I guess the charitable interpretation is that they're trying to encourage growth. Whether you believe it will work or not is another matter.

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