Adam Lent
Drawing on a wealth of data sources, Landman Economics and the Fabian Society, have been building a statistical model for the TUC and Unison over the last few months which shows how public spending affects different households and income groups. Don’t Forget the Spending Cuts! is the first study based on the model and it reveals just how strikingly regressive the Budget is once you factor in the spending cuts which neither the Treasury nor the IFS’s analysis included.
The model reveals that:
the average annual cut in public spending on the poorest tenth of households is £1,344, equivalent to 20.5% of their household income, whereas the average annual cut in public spending on the richest tenth of households is £1,135, equivalent to just 1.6% of their household income.
The graph based on the data tells its own remarkable story (you can click on it for a bigger version):
The Observer has a report on the study today.
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Comment made by Tim Worstall on Jun 27th 2010 at 6:05 pm:
What a wonderful report.
When we back calculate the numbers what we get is that every household in the bottom 10% gets £26,000 a year of public services. Add the £7,000 they get in income and that means that the consumption basket of every household is now higher than the median household income of £30,000 a year.
How wonderful! We’ve finally abolished poverty! there is no one whose consumption is less than 60% of median income: for there’s no one whose consumption is less than median income!
Woo Hoo!
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Comment made by Edmund Bullingham on Jun 29th 2010 at 12:29 am:
The well named Lib-Cons sure have conned the Liberals. Typical Tory everyone pays the same (poll tax) style “fairness”. I remember that same poll tax style “fairness” when i lived in Coventry, Stoke Aldermoor the most needy council estate in Coventry lost £1m a year to the poll tax BUT across the main drag in Stoke where all the wealthy people live they had a gain of £1m a year all in the name of everybody pays the same: fairness Tory style.
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