{"id":85039,"date":"2025-08-14T07:14:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T06:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=85039"},"modified":"2025-08-14T07:14:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T06:14:49","slug":"opinion-on-the-household-analogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/08\/14\/opinion-on-the-household-analogy\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion on the household analogy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday's <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/08\/13\/governments-arent-like-households\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poll on the household analogy<\/a> produced some pretty clear results.<\/p>\n<p>This was the voting on this blog:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-85042\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-14-at-07.11.21-550x317.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-14-at-07.11.21-550x317.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-14-at-07.11.21-521x300.png 521w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-14-at-07.11.21-768x442.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-14-at-07.11.21-1536x885.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-14-at-07.11.21-600x346.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-14-at-07.11.21.png 1774w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And this was the result on YouTube:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-85043\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-14-at-07.08.04-550x332.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-14-at-07.08.04-550x332.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-14-at-07.08.04-496x300.png 496w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-14-at-07.08.04-768x464.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-14-at-07.08.04-600x363.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-14-at-07.08.04.png 1446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It seems that the argument against this nonsense works pretty well when people take the time to engage and think about it.<\/p>\n<p>So, the question is, how do we get more people to engage with it? I wish I knew the answer to that.<\/p>\n<div id=\"te-floating-button-container\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s poll on the household analogy produced some pretty clear results. This was the voting on this blog: And this was the result on YouTube:<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/08\/14\/opinion-on-the-household-analogy\/\"><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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-justice","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85039","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=85039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85044,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85039\/revisions\/85044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}