Joe Chi Minh
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Sun Jan-31-10 01:52 PM
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The UK - a broken society. Surely, one of the most important articles that |
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Sun Jan-31-10 02:01 PM
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1. They don't have to worry. They will never be the last on the list. |
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Among 21 developed market democracies, we found that Britain does worst on child wellbeing and badly on teenage births, imprisonment, drug abuse, trust, obesity, social mobility and mental illness. This week brought fresh confirmation of the pervasive and profound inequality in Britain in the form of a 460-page government-commissioned study – An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK – which described a nation in which the richest 10% are more than 100 times as wealthy as the poorest 10%.
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Sun Jan-31-10 03:03 PM
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2. True to an extent, yet as per the concluding paragraph, their quality of life is improved |
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as well as that of the people, in a less economically-polarized society.
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Sun Jan-31-10 05:30 PM
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3. Well, compared to us.... I'm not sure what to say. |
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Sun Jan-31-10 06:16 PM
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4. Re your tagline, as that fabled populist, Adam Smith, put it |
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Edited on Sun Jan-31-10 06:24 PM by Joe Chi Minh
(and what a friend of the people, he was, in reality):
"The subjects of every state ought to contribute toward the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state."
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