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The problems in addressing the long-term pressures on popular services for health care, education and pensions at first sight differ from those in ensuring generous and inclusive benefits to reduce inequalities and mitigate poverty among the stigmatised minorities most affected by cutbacks. The amounts required to sustain the popular mass services are large but in fact rather less than the spending increases actually achieved in those areas during the past 30 years. Spending at this level requires political commitment, but is feasible. The real problem for those who want better welfare is to ensure that less advantaged groups get the same outcomes from the services that everyone uses as the more privileged. This requires cutting tax subsidies to private provision, extra spending on the health and education of lower-income groups and better pensions.
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© 2013 Peter Taylor-Gooby
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Taylor-Gooby, P. (2013). Responding to the Trilemma: Affordable Policies to Make Popular Mass Services More Inclusive. In: The Double Crisis of the Welfare State and What We Can Do About It. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137328113_4
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