{"id":36992,"date":"2017-04-21T09:12:09","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T08:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=36992"},"modified":"2017-04-21T09:12:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T08:12:09","slug":"is-it-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2017\/04\/21\/is-it-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it fair?"},"content":{"rendered":"
The following comes from the Rev Pail Nicolson of Taxpayers against Poverty. He asked people to ask their candidates:<\/div>\n
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Is it fair that:<\/strong><\/div>\n
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\u00e2\u20ac\u2039...\u00e2\u20ac\u2039the regressive impact of the market and austerity has damaged the health and wellbeing of millions <\/a>of citizens since 1979 and in particular since 2010?<\/div>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u2039<\/div>\n
...\u00e2\u20ac\u2039rents rising faster than incomes leading<\/a> The Resolution Foundation to\u00a0forecast\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u2039even\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u2039lower incomes after housing costs<\/a>\u00a0by 16% for the poorest citizens over the next four years while the highest incomes rise 4%?
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\n\u00e2\u20ac\u2039<\/div>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u2039...Income Support, Employment Support Allowance and Jobseekers Allowance (all at \u00a373.10 pw) and Universal Credit\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u2039at\u00e2\u20ac\u2039 \u00a0\u00a3317pm are too low\u00a0 live on <\/a>AND have to pay rent due to the bedroom tax and council tax.<\/div>\n
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\u00e2\u20ac\u2039...\u00e2\u20ac\u2039the NHS has reported 50%, or over 7300, more people, have been\u00a0admitted to hospital with malnutrition<\/a>\u00a0in the four years since 2010?<\/div>\n
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\u00e2\u20ac\u2039...\u00e2\u20ac\u2039the Office for National Statistics has revealed an\u00a0unprecedented increase in deaths in 2015<\/a>\u00a0after decades of improvement?<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u2039....\u00e2\u20ac\u2039given what we know about the physical and emotional costs of moving house,\u00a0the vulnerability of children\u2019s education\u00a0to frequent\u00a0moves<\/a>,\u00a0and the disruption to schooling and social networks, that councils are demolishing council estates rather than maintaining them?<\/div>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u2039\u00e2\u20ac\u2039...t\u00e2\u20ac\u2039o allow\u00a0the UK to sleepwalk into a proliferation of insecure work which is short sighted,<\/a>\u00a0damages health and costs the taxpayers?<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u2039...i\u00e2\u20ac\u2039n 2010 it was estimated that inequalities in health <\/a>accounted for productivity losses of \u00a331-\u00a333 billion per year, and \u00a320-\u00a332 billion a year in lost taxes and higher welfare payments.\u00a0 Additional NHS healthcare costs associated with inequality were estimated to be in excess of \u00a35.5 billion a year?<\/p>\n

\u2026.AND WHAT WOULD YOUR GOVERNMENT TO ABOUT IT?<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following comes from the Rev Pail Nicolson of Taxpayers against Poverty. He asked people to ask their candidates: Is it fair that: \u00e2\u20ac\u2039…\u00e2\u20ac\u2039the regressive
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