{"id":83536,"date":"2025-06-28T07:18:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T06:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=83536"},"modified":"2025-06-28T07:18:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T06:18:44","slug":"why-do-we-only-talk-about-the-costs-of-benefits-for-those-least-well-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/06\/28\/why-do-we-only-talk-about-the-costs-of-benefits-for-those-least-well-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do we only talk about the costs of benefits for those least well off?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I shared this on social media last night:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-83537\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-27-at-20.23.18-550x988.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"988\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-27-at-20.23.18-550x988.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-27-at-20.23.18-167x300.png 167w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-27-at-20.23.18-223x400.png 223w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-27-at-20.23.18.png 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Why do we only talk about the costs of benefits for those least well off, and not those for the rich?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I shared this on social media last night: Why do we only talk about the costs of benefits for those least well off, and not<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/06\/28\/why-do-we-only-talk-about-the-costs-of-benefits-for-those-least-well-off\/\"><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":[204,35,16,147,118,29,106,221,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-justice","category-economics","category-ethics","category-inequality","category-labour","category-pensions","category-politics","category-posters","category-tax-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83536","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=83536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83538,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83536\/revisions\/83538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}