Cuts or taxes? A Fairness Test is vital to ensure inequality doesn't rise againSubmitted by Kathryn Busby on 14 June 2010 Polly Toynbee writes today that the Government has a choice - address the deficit predominently with higher taxes spread fairly among the population, or with cuts to welfare and services. If they follow the latter course, Professor John Hills (who chaired the National Equality Panel's recent report Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK), warns that those in greatest need will be hardest hit. We are in great danger of returning to the steeply increasing inequality of the 1980s. Read the full article This is why we, One Society and others are urgently calling for a Fairness Test - an inequality impact assessment to ensure that measures to cut the deficit do not lead to an increase in inequality of incomes, assets or access to services.
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