"Whenever there is a phone-in show or a tacky televised debate about
benefits culture, someone always demands to know where all this money is
going to. To a large extent, here is the answer. Britain's benefits
bill is not going to pay for flat screen TVs, satellite dishes and white
cider, but a fair hunk of it is for country estates, mansions in
suburbia and yachts in the marina. Britain is indeed being taken for a
ride by our benefits culture. It is not the poor behind the wheel, but
the rich."
The Guardian's Ally Fogg on the real beneficiaries of benefit culture.
(Thanks to Danny for the link.)
Thursday, February 27, 2014
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