On who bears the burden of benefit cuts
Posted by Christie Malry on January 6, 2013 at 4:09 pm
The Guardian pronounces:
Under George Osborne's benefit cuts, it's the strivers who suffer most
Well, duh. Because it's strivers who get benefits. The rich don't get benefits, so benefit cuts don't hurt them. This is particularly true now that child benefit is withdrawn from households with someone who earns above £50,000 per year.
A proper analysis would require you to consider the impact of tax increases too. And, by Jove, here's one the Treasury did earlier.
Oh. Looks like the rich bear the burden, not strivers.
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@fcablog Puffles (*wonders*) what figures would be if measured as % of money coming in (Income, dividends, capital gains etc)
I suspect the Guardian's point is that it is not just "skivers" who are being penalised, despite Osborne's rhetoric that benefit cuts are being targetted against lazy good-for-nothing, work-shy parasitic benefit claimants.
The point being made is that working households, so-called "strivers", are also being targetted for benefit cuts, as well as their less popular peers, the so-called skivers
So I guess the Guardian's purpose is to counter Osborne's populist propaganda.
Countering with some of their own propaganda. And as usual not all sides tell the truth....