Zusammenfassung der Ressource
UK: Reducing Social and
Economic Inequalities
- Taxation
- Income tax is calculated
as % earnings
- Richer people pay more
than poorer people
- £10,000 per year
(tax free)
- Basic tax rate = 20% on
annual earning above
the pay tax threshold
and up to £32,010
- Higher tax rate = 40% on annual earning from £32,011 to £150,000
- Additional tax
rate = 45% on
annual earnings
above £150,000
- Laws
- Minimum wage
- Discrimination
- Equal opportunities
- Protect the civil rights of the poor, but
it is money that buys you the defence
- Do such laws help the society as a
whole? or can they act to back fire and
disadvantage others? (immigration)
- Subsidies
- Children
- Clothing
- Free school meals
- University
fees
- Pensioners
- Transport
- Pension
- Single Parents
= free childcare
- Unemployed
= Benefits
- Education
- Increased national
teaching standards
- Degree 2:1 or above
- Skills tests
- Increased personal health education
- Citerzenship
- PSHE
- Free education for all
- Does free education match private education