Disabled people dying means a smaller tax burden. That boon can be turned into corporate subsidies or tax cuts.
Comment on People with depression or anxiety could lose sickness benefits, says UK minister
FriendlyBeagleDog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
They know that suppressing disability benefits will cause excess death, they just don’t care.
It doesn’t matter to them if their decisions drive vulnerable people to destitution or even suicide, so long as they can feed a few extra bodies into the gears to pump their numbers.
People with mental health conditions and other disabilities need support that the health and social care services can’t provide because the government have spent over a decade cutting them.
Instead we get thinly veiled eugenics, a cynical revival of social Darwinism.
Cagi@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
2008 and the start of austerity was now close to 16 years ago. It went out of fashion everywhere else but we bloody stuck with it 💪🇬🇧
Cagi@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
This goes back to Thatcher’s implementation of Reaganomics. Cut services sand taxes, turn the economy into the lawless wild west, blame government for the resulting shitty life for workers as justification to further cut services asnd taxes. 2008 was just feul for the fire.