There must be independent assessments of the impact of budget cuts on different groupsBenjamin Franklin once argued nothing was certain except death and taxes. Certain they may be,but experience of both is very unequal. While women tend to live longer than men, their pockets are hit much harder when it comes to public revenues. And whether one is a matter of physiology, and the other is a question of politics. Without data to identify how and why,neither can be addressed.
It is now devastatingly clear that seven years of austerity budgets maintain hindered equality in Britain. Raising the personal tax allowance and the higher rate threshold to £50000 may be popular, but it helps older white men most of all. More than 43% of adults do not earn above this allowance in the first dwelling and, or of these,66% are women and 41% maintain dependent children. Seventy-three per cent of those who can expect to gain from raising the higher rate threshold are men.
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Source: guardian.co.uk