Re: Where's that perfect world when you need it?
> you need an army of bureaucrats to ... decide who deserves to get what
I think the whole point was that you don't need them, everyone gets the same. Remember that means-tested benefits are perniciously-stealthy income tax; I think, and suspect Tim will too, that income tax is OK but it would be even better without such distortions. And don't even get me started on the pathetic pretence that (employees') NI contributions are somehow not income tax.