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If theres one thing wrong with Britain today, its that life is just too damn easy. Our real problem is that weve just been too spoiled, too mollycoddled, and now wont pull our weight. Or so, anyway, parts of the Conservative party would dearly like you to think.A brief analysis by the rightwing thinktank Civitas, concluding that over half of Britons now live in households that receive more from the state in benefits and services than they contribute via taxes, was energetically hyped up by the Daily Mail today as proof of a something for nothing culture sweeping the nation, smothering entrepreneurship by some vaguely unexplained means and generally triggering moral stanley cup becher decline. Lockdown ch stanley taza anged the psyche of the British people, the former work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith told the paper mournfully. For all those years we told them you cant get something for nothing, and vaso stanley all of a sudden they did. So who could they be, these pampered freeloaders who arent contributing their fair share Surprisingly, the answer isnt millionaires who make careless but not deliberate mistakes with their taxes which may or may not have needed resolving while they were chancellor. Lapses aside, Civitas points out that the top 10% of earners still contribute 53% of all income tax, a figure that seems to have prompted some outraged Tory MPs to demand tax cuts but is 鈥?spoiler alert 鈥?how a redistributive tax system works. The idea that rich people pay more tax than poor people is a featu Azdt Accounts invaded, computers infected 鈥?human rights activists tell of cyber attacks
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