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If you've been wondering about the claim put about by Nigel Farage & the Right that the majority in the UK receive more in benefits than they pay in taxes.... you will enjoy Emma Monk's detailed takedown of that claim... a claim which itself depends on you seeing your use of the NHS & state education as 'benefits', rather than (more accurately) the public service(s) we expect from a modern state.

(and if you're not subscribed why not do so today)

#benefits #politics

https://monkdebunks.substack.com/p/benefits-taxes-and-misleading-headlines

RaymondPierreL3 · 49w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqg0tuf634rz4suczwj7kgnecr6cyt0eu9xmp3sp0fku68mqehq4msas60lz “Benefits’ is often used by the right to denigrade ‘social services’ in order to ‘sell them off’. But social services are the reason societies elect govts in the first pl...

Russ Cheshire · 49w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqg0tuf634rz4suczwj7kgnecr6cyt0eu9xmp3sp0fku68mqehq4msas60lz As an aside: do the Torygraph or the Daily Fail ever point out that if large companies were to pay their employees better (instead of relying on working credit allowances, etc to bring w...

Rastal · 49w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqg0tuf634rz4suczwj7kgnecr6cyt0eu9xmp3sp0fku68mqehq4msas60lz Whilst we are on this topic, US corporations in #uk receive more in corporate welfare than they pay in taxes.

Sbectol · 49w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqg0tuf634rz4suczwj7kgnecr6cyt0eu9xmp3sp0fku68mqehq4msas60lz I think anyone who has had open heart surgery or complex cancer treatment has likely had medical care worth more in financial terms than they've paid in a lifetime of taxes. Which is as...