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A lottery winner claiming benefits just does not feel right | Michael White | Society | The Guardian
Michael White: Our sense of fairness is being tested in all sorts of ways, and next month's budget will test it even further
Tax, reading and aerobic exercise - Mad World
Tax, reading and aerobic exercise user-pic By Simeon Brody, community editor, on September 8, 2011 12:36 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks money-pile-legal-100.jpg People living in countries with a more progressive tax system are generally happier than those in countries with a flatter tax system, a
$2.7 Trillion In Spending Cuts And No New Taxes - Robert Lenzner - StreetTalk - Forbes
This plan from Sen. Reid screws the old, the middle class, the citizens dependent on social services and retains historic income for the rich. It is the diametric opposite of the New Deal, the Fair Deal, everything progressive in our nation's recent history. It is a dangerous precedent that makes
Blog U.: Blunt Economics - Provost Prose - Inside Higher Ed
Across the country, virtually every state is trying to control spending, and nationally we are also working hard to control spending. Who could argue? No one wants additional taxes, so raising revenue (absent a more robust economy) on the state level will be difficult while raising the deficit on
Welfare reform bill - benefit cap Commons live debate | Society | guardian.co.uk
After seven defeats in the Lords, the government's controversial welfare reform proposals return to the Commons for further discussion
Dilnot's elderly care proposals won't promote equality | Money | guardian.co.uk
Dilnot's plans for social care will create a new unfairness between the rich and poor, argues Steve Groves
Drinks at the Ritz – a tale of two cities| Michael White | Society | guardian.co.uk
Michael White: A trip to Birmingham for a talk on inequality followed by white wine and nibbles in Piccadilly with billionaire publisher Steve Forbes offered an interesting study in contrasts
Councils have no choice but to bring in 'stealth taxes' | Michael White | Politics | guardian.co.uk
Michael White: Councils are being told to protect frontline services while their grants from central government are slashed – so what else can they do?
A cuts-free alternative
By Peter Beresford, chair of national service user network Shaping Our Lives and professor of social policy at Brunel UniversityPerhaps the biggest mistake any of us can make about the government's massive cuts policy is to treat it as inevitable....
Blog U.: Taxing a la Carte - Confessions of a Community College Dean - Inside Higher Ed
This story about the election results got me wondering. (And everybody can put the knives down -- I’m not analyzing candidates here.) In a climate in which government spending is generally considered suspect, and in which people who campaign on “tax cuts good, spending bad” do very well, ballot
