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End universal benefits, and reduce complexity
Kristian Niemietz
6 June 2013
2 comments

Apparently, the Labour Party is performing a U-turn on universal benefits, or at least on the Winter Fuel Payment. So far, the principle of universality has been seen as sacrosanct. Now, a removal...
The fiscal illusion: is this why Owen Jones defends benefits for wealthy pensioners?
Kristian Niemietz
7 May 2013
3 comments

There are a number of theories about why government spending in developed countries has such a persistent upward tendency, only coming to a halt once the public has been so thoroughly milked that...
Clegg is half right on universal old-age benefits
Kristian Niemietz
8 December 2011
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In very cautious terms, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has questioned the current set of universal benefits for the elderly. This is a major deviation from what has thus far been the coalition...
The seen and the unseen - benefits, and the taxes used to finance them
Philip Booth
3 March 2011
5 comments

This week, Pensions Minister Steve Webb MP described the views of the authors of Sharing the burden - How the older generation should suffer its share of the cuts as “loathsome”. It...
End of entitlement – for the middle classes…
Philip Booth
22 October 2009
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Reform have today launched a report calling for the end of middle class benefits to stave off increases in tax. Before querying that proposal, let me say first that I am glad that they have waded...

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