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Are you sure? Welfare spending is the second-highest voice in public spending at 208.8 billions (highest is health at 211.6) [1]. Tax gaps are currently estimated at 39.8 billions [2].

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/how-public-spendi...

[2] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/measuring-tax-gaps/...

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> Tax gaps are currently estimated at 39.8 billions [2].

And guess what the Tories chose to do instead of increasing taxes on the richer cohort of the population? Cut budgets for welfare programs, increasing poverty, making society less productive: more sick, less educated, individuals in poverty stay in poverty for longer further reducing economic output and straining public services, staying in poverty longer also mean a smaller tax contribution, so on and so forth.

Are there things more important than the welfare of the people?

Giving people money isn't the same thing as welfare.

Ask any drug addict what they would do with more money. Most of them are truthful.

Is that what's happening? I thought it was going to housing, medical, and food assistance.

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