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Re: Cameron lied to get back in (tax credits and hard working people)
I am glad this is being reviewed - I believe there should be an impact assessment on those affected, and it should be phased in / balanced with raised income tax allowances & increased minimum wages.
btw, there was another interesting point made in the Robert Peston piece I linked to earlier
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When Gordon Brown and his then adviser Ed Balls embarked on their reshaping of the British welfare state by massively increasing benefits delivered to lower-paid, working people through the tax credit system, one of their aims was cynically political.
The more people who received these credits, and the more generous they became, the more frightened those on average or lower incomes would be of voting Tory.
Or, as they told me, so Brown and Balls hoped.
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