Social insurance and allied services : memorandum on the Beveridge Report
1943-02-10 1943 1940s 24 pages 6. on 15/-. Even if Income Tax had applied then as it does today to the lower ranges of income, and when every additional 6d. on the Tax - after allowing for post-war credits - would have given a net yield of £35 millions, it would have meant a standard rate...
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6. on 15/-. Even if Income Tax had applied then as it does today to the lower ranges of income, and when every additional 6d. on the Tax - after allowing for post-war credits - would have given a net yield of £35 millions, it would have meant a standard rate of tax as high as 13/6d. in the £. (17) The full implications of the above situation will be realised when it is borne in mind that the improvement of the Social Services is only one of the post-war social betterments which the people of this country are looking forward to. Similar hopes, for example, are held in regard to Education and Housing for the welfare of the race. It has also to be borne in mind that, in addition to these social programmes, there are certain post-war obligations to which this country of necessity already stands committed - National Defence, War Pensions, Civil Injury Pensions and Interest on further borrowing for the prosecution of the war - and the ultimate cost of which cannot possibly be predicted at this stage in the war. (18) Opinions may differ as to the order of priority of the nation's post-war obligations as a whole, but there will be no one today who would not give first place to our obligation to be able to defend ourselves and to see that justice is done to those who have suffered injury in the war and to the dependants of those who have given their lives in the defence of the country. Further, there may be many who would give to the other objectives of social betterment, such as Housing and Education, a priority at least equal to, if not higher than, some of the objectives of the "Beveridge" proposals. (19) The keynote throughout the "Beveridge" Report as presented and which has seized the public imagination is that its objective is the Abolition of Want. So far as the "Beveridge" proposals are directed to that objective, it is not open to question that they hold one of the highest places in the order of priority of our post-war obligations. So far, however, as the proposals are directed to the further objective which relates to those who are not in Want, they must as previously stated be weighed, not from the standpoint of their "necessity" but rather from the standpoint of their "desirability" in relation to the country's/
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