Tearing apart the British welfare state: Tories impose jobs on the ‘workshy’
Saturday, November 13th, 2010
Nov. 12, 2010
Almost a century after the modern welfare state was created… Britain’s Conservative-Liberal coalition government are hoping to tear it apart completely in a radical act of cost slashing… At its core is a far more controversial effort by the Conservative-led government to push a large population of uneducated, perpetually unemployed Britons… into the labour force.
Tags: poverty, standard of living
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In solving the financial crisis, let’s not resort to ‘social cleansing’
Saturday, November 13th, 2010
Nov. 13, 2010
The gap between the poor and the super-rich is not important (as long as we are able to tax the super-rich)… If we manage to bring back growth at the expense of equal opportunity, it will be, as the mayor suggests, a time of social cleansing and lasting impoverishment and division. The consequences of that would be far more serious than a mere recession.
Tags: economy, participation, standard of living, tax
Posted in Inclusion Debates | No Comments »
Government and the good life
Monday, April 5th, 2010
Apr. 01, 2010
It is no longer possible to argue, as many people did a few years ago, that government is an impediment to the good life, or that its role should be stripped down to basic oversight and security. …its social-safety-net mechanisms and welfare-state provisions, became the backbone of the greatest stretch of innovation, entrepreneurship and employment that capitalism has ever seen. It was only when those mechanisms began to be winnowed down that capitalism became dangerously wobbly… Even conservative leaders are now realizing that there is no public desire to strip away public services…
Tags: globalization, standard of living
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A Tobin tax? The outré is back in
Sunday, February 7th, 2010
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinions -G7 officials are discussing a ‘microtax’ to fund … something
Published on Friday, Feb. 05, 2010 Last updated on Saturday, Feb. 06, 2010. Paris – Doug Saunders
Long-abandoned ideas, such as the state takeover of banks and massive taxpayer support of private-sector employment, suddenly became mainstream policy among conservative governments. The risk of slowing down markets and raising the cost of finance sounded less serious. The unthinkable became thinkable.
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Posted in Economy/Employment | No Comments »
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