There is nothing inevitable about the UK becoming more unequal, and more unjust. The deficit can be reduced over time through a combination of judicious spending cuts, progressive tax rises and economic growth. Rather than ideologically pursuing a Budget surplus, the state should borrow to invest in pro-growth areas that support lasting prosperity, such as infrastructure, skills, job creation and childcare. It should focus on prevention rather than cure, by switching spending from housing benefit to housebuilding and by incentivising the use of the living wage, rather than subsidising poverty wages. If the short-term costs are higher, so are the long-term savings. To end the avoidable misery of poverty and to create the conditions for human flourishing, Britain must follow this alternative path.
Posted on: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 15:00:01 +0000
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