"When the funds for public services dry up, the right instinctively looks downward for places to save cash. The Tories are pledging a crackdown on disability-benefit recipients, and the abolition of services for the poor like SureStart centres and Educational Maintenance Allowances. Refugees are rarely far behind: remember, David Cameron wrote the last Tory manifesto, which committed to end the 1951 UN Convention on Refugees founded in the wake of the Holocaust."
"....if every single disability benefit claimant and every single refugee was a fraud, they would still be ripping us off for less than the super-rich."
"If the super-rich paid their taxes as the rest of us are required to, we could increase every pension by nearly 50 percent, or treble spending on primary schools. (You can read some of my suggestions for how to make them do this on our blog.) We are always hearing about the tiny number of dishonest disability and refugee claimants, but hardly anything about this far larger scandal."
Johann Hari. (With my emphases).
Excellent article once again:
http://www.johannhari.com/archive/article.php?id=1269
"....if every single disability benefit claimant and every single refugee was a fraud, they would still be ripping us off for less than the super-rich."
"If the super-rich paid their taxes as the rest of us are required to, we could increase every pension by nearly 50 percent, or treble spending on primary schools. (You can read some of my suggestions for how to make them do this on our blog.) We are always hearing about the tiny number of dishonest disability and refugee claimants, but hardly anything about this far larger scandal."
Johann Hari. (With my emphases).
Excellent article once again:
http://www.johannhari.com/archive/article.php?id=1269