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The Dreadful Monster and its Poor Relations - Taxing, Spending and the United Kingdom, 1707-2021 (Paperback)
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The Dreadful Monster and its Poor Relations - Taxing, Spending and the United Kingdom, 1707-2021 (Paperback)
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List price R386
Loot Price R314
Discovery Miles 3 140
You Save R72 (19%)
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'An invaluable primer to some of the underlying tensions behind
contemporary political debate' Financial Times It has always been
an important part of British self-image to see the United Kingdom
as an ancient, organic and sensibly managed place, in striking
contrast to the convulsions of other European countries. Yet, as
Julian Hoppit makes clear in this fascinating and surprising book,
beneath the complacent surface the United Kingdom has in fact been
in a constant, often very tense argument with itself about how it
should be run and, most significantly, who should pay for what. The
book takes its argument from an eighteenth century cartoon which
shows the central state as the 'Dreadful Monster', gorging itself
at the dinner table on all the taxes it can grab. Meanwhile the
'Poor Relations' - Scotland, Wales and Ireland, both poor because
of tax but also poor in the sense of needing special treatment -
are viewed in London as an endless 'drain on the state'. With
drastically different levels of prosperity, population, industry,
agriculture and accessibility between the United Kingdom's
different nations, what is a fair basis for paying for the state?
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