{"id":18944,"date":"2013-01-15T08:58:51","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T08:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=18944"},"modified":"2013-01-15T08:58:51","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T08:58:51","slug":"we-used-to-have-social-security-now-we-just-have-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/01\/15\/we-used-to-have-social-security-now-we-just-have-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"We used to have social security. Now we just have fear."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted this tweet last night:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Screen-shot-2013-01-15-at-08.55.14.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18945\" title=\"Screen shot 2013-01-15 at 08.55.14\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Screen-shot-2013-01-15-at-08.55.14.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"326\" height=\"99\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Screen-shot-2013-01-15-at-08.55.14.png 326w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Screen-shot-2013-01-15-at-08.55.14-300x91.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Cameron's logic and in Osborne's rhetoric it's the fault of the staff of HMV, Jessops and Comet that they should now be facing benefit cuts.<\/p>\n<p>We should hang our heads in shame at the failure of what we once called social security.<\/p>\n<p>Now neoliberalism peddles fear through the encouragement of contempt when our duty is to care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted this tweet last night: On Cameron&#8217;s logic and in Osborne&#8217;s rhetoric it&#8217;s the fault of the staff of HMV, Jessops and Comet that<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/01\/15\/we-used-to-have-social-security-now-we-just-have-fear\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}