Britain's War on Welfare

Most Britons should want to protect the public sector, which is not as "bloated" as is claimed, but has the staff needed to serve an ageing, overworked population with increasing mental problems, addicts, neglectful and abusive parents, homelessness and real poverty. During a recession all these problems increase. If a state decides to withdraw, we will get back to Victorian levels of deprivation and chaos. There will be more illnesses, suicides, divorces, abandoned and abused children, crime, alcohol and drug abuse. And there is the now silenced argument over redistribution. Why can't people with incomes over £100,000 be taxed more highly? They can't all flee to Monaco. Why is it blasphemous to ask that question or any of the others listed above?