Poverty: A Modest Proposal

Tim Hazledine

Chapter 26 in Full Employment without Inflation, 1984, pp 219-227 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract If government wants to reduce poverty, it should stop trying to eliminate it. Increasingly, government is relied on to weave a ‘safety net’ to support those at the lower end of the income distribution; a net paid for by taxes levied on the better-off. The trouble is, that though the taxes have been paid, the money has not always turned up at the other end — the net has holes in it.

Keywords: Poverty Line; Unemployment Benefit; Transfer Payment; Sector Rent; Enforce Child Support (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1984
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-17697-7_26

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