There’s a missing link in British public life – and it underpins crises from the BBC to our prisons | Rafael Behr

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : It means winning an argument about the function of taxes, defining the group that stands to benefit from pooled resources as broadly as possible.The system has to be seen as a collective investment for mutual advantage, not expropriation and transfer to strangers.
44% : The chancellor is asking people to pay more – having already raised taxes and point-blank promised she wouldn’t do it again – before the government has delivered a dividend in public goods.A popular party with charismatic leadership would find that hard to sell.
42% : But the easier way to satisfy voters’ craving for security is to pledge ever harsher punishments.For years, those incentives combined to drive up mandatory prison sentences without suitable increases in the justice department budget.

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