{"id":24069,"date":"2014-02-19T07:58:59","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T07:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=24069"},"modified":"2014-02-19T08:00:20","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T08:00:20","slug":"cuts-are-targeting-the-vulnerable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2014\/02\/19\/cuts-are-targeting-the-vulnerable\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuts are targeting the vulnerable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning seems to be one for infographics. <a title=\"The message to take from the 1%\u2019s tax bill is just how unequal society is\" href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2014\/02\/19\/the-message-to-take-from-the-1s-tax-bill-is-just-how-unequal-society-is\/\" target=\"_blank\">Having just done one on tax<\/a> it is essential to do one on social security. These comes from the new report '<a href=\"http:\/\/www.centreforwelfarereform.org\/library\/type\/pdfs\/counting-the-cuts.html\" target=\"_blank\">Counting the Cuts' from the Centre for Welfare Reform<\/a>. They have encouraged their widespread distribution so I will use several:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-19-at-07.45.30.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-24070\" alt=\"Screen shot 2014-02-19 at 07.45.30\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-19-at-07.45.30-1024x769.png\" width=\"614\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-19-at-07.45.30-1024x769.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-19-at-07.45.30-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-19-at-07.45.30-399x300.png 399w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-19-at-07.45.30-175x132.png 175w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-19-at-07.45.30.png 1439w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">____________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-19-at-07.47.14.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-24072\" alt=\"Screen shot 2014-02-19 at 07.47.14\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-19-at-07.47.14-1024x775.png\" width=\"614\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-19-at-07.47.14-1024x775.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-19-at-07.47.14-300x227.png 300w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-19-at-07.47.14-297x225.png 297w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-19-at-07.47.14-396x300.png 396w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-19-at-07.47.14-174x132.png 174w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-19-at-07.47.14.png 1398w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-19-at-07.48.48.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-24073\" alt=\"Screen shot 2014-02-19 at 07.48.48\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-19-at-07.48.48-1024x710.png\" width=\"614\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-19-at-07.48.48-1024x710.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-19-at-07.48.48-300x208.png 300w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-19-at-07.48.48-432x300.png 432w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-19-at-07.48.48-190x132.png 190w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-19-at-07.48.48.png 1451w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">_____________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-19-at-07.49.45.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-24074\" alt=\"Screen shot 2014-02-19 at 07.49.45\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-19-at-07.49.45-1024x804.png\" width=\"614\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-19-at-07.49.45-1024x804.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-19-at-07.49.45-300x235.png 300w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-19-at-07.49.45-286x225.png 286w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-19-at-07.49.45-381x300.png 381w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-19-at-07.49.45-168x132.png 168w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-19-at-07.49.45.png 1412w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">_____________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-19-at-07.50.47.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-24075\" alt=\"Screen shot 2014-02-19 at 07.50.47\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-19-at-07.50.47-1024x738.png\" width=\"614\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-19-at-07.50.47-1024x738.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-19-at-07.50.47-300x216.png 300w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-19-at-07.50.47-415x300.png 415w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-19-at-07.50.47-183x132.png 183w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-19-at-07.50.47.png 1489w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">To all of which there are conclusions:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-19-at-07.52.51.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-24076\" alt=\"Screen shot 2014-02-19 at 07.52.51\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-19-at-07.52.51-1024x726.png\" width=\"614\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-19-at-07.52.51-1024x726.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-19-at-07.52.51-300x212.png 300w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-19-at-07.52.51-422x300.png 422w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-19-at-07.52.51-186x132.png 186w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-02-19-at-07.52.51.png 1381w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And all of this is unnecessary. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Documents\/FAQ1TaxGap.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">We could be closing the tax gap instead<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning seems to be one for infographics. Having just done one on tax it is essential to do one on social security. These comes<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2014\/02\/19\/cuts-are-targeting-the-vulnerable\/\"><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":[35,16,50,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-ethics","category-tax-gap","category-tax-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24069","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=24069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}