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By Lin Hatfield Dodds, published 15/11/2013

Lifting tax as a share of GDP to at least the 23.7 per cent level of 2007, up from around 20 per cent in 2010-11, would better enable us to pay for what we value.

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Any "savings" must then be spent on more police, legal aid, courts and prisons.
Shockadelic,
I'd rather see it spent on a National Service which would produce more decent citizens & cut the number of criminals. I'd be a lot cheaper too. A flat tax would enable the lot.
Posted by individual, Sunday, 17 November 2013 5:59:38 PM
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Hasbeen, I'm talking about the people who aren't committing crimes *now* because they get welfare.

Without it, they will rob and steal to survive (and possibly assault or murder in the process).
What about the social "costs" of living in a more threatening environment?
Posted by Shockadelic, Monday, 18 November 2013 6:46:15 PM
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Really.like the discussion thus far. About the disadvantaged in life, I have no solutions but I urge you to read the excellent book by Robert Hughs "The Fatal Shore" and notably the chapter " A Horse Foaled By an Acorn". They talk about the " swinish multitude" .

Quote:
" modern squalor is squalid but Georgian squalor is " Hogarthian" , an art form in itself "

What do we imagine?

My two bobs worth chaps.
Posted by Kilmouski, Monday, 18 November 2013 7:08:28 PM
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