CEE members seem to be class proud however this may be a manifisectation of ego akin to driving a large automobile -), Middle class is often a case of being subsidised by discriminatory benefits rather than non-discriminatory benefits the lower class claim. For example JSA, Income support are non-discriminatory benefits any one can claim if meet the criteria. However to be middle class often a case of claiming more discriminatory benefits, different mechanism of claiming state subsidy.
For example to put in a claim for a life time of state subsidy at say the council or government, university or NHS you may need to know the discriminatory criteria some inside information have connection in the know. Middle class is about knowing how to play the system to gain larger subsidies from the state. For all the noise now get on state tv about JSA , public sector pensions the unfunded ones, largely all but councils are pay as you go and each year cost the “poor hard worker tax payer -)” 10 times what JSA costs.
Although the state direct subsidies, hand out direct transfer payments only cover part of the middle class. Many are more subtle such as legal professional were is state aid comes through the state aid, providing barriers to entry, and effectively privately collected tax and spend, through excessive charges. The extra money achieved through higher charges are akin a benefit claim.
The government run the state collection of tax and spend, but also the private one set through controls. Although a minor source of re distribution the extra charge that government imposed on electricity bills than then government dictate is used to reduce some people bill is a tax and spend through regulation, effectively a private tax authority and benefit provider mandated through legislation is among the most transparent. The pension protection fund is another one at 5 billion a year legally mandated charge that is a government legally mandated transfer payment.
The government mandated collection and spend don’t appear on the internationally comparable tax and spend, figures like PFI hide borrowing figures but using future liability. The quasi-government tax and spend figures hide government transfer payments .
Many middle class are subsidies through similar in principle are more subtle type government mandated benefits, an obvious one being barriers to advocates society a transfer payment through legally mandated supply restrictions. I suppose the “ banking government back stop” is also a subsidies how many” bankers” many more investors, left to their own personal endeavours, would be bust. RBS bank of Scotland all pensions would all be muchly vanished if not for state support.
The higher class may also be subject to subsidy many of the holders of wealth would also likewise be bust, the normal adjustment that would have occurred after what should have been a crash. The protection has created a group of wealthy of people who left to own devices would have had assets crash they gain wealth in mass through reckless behaviour and got to keep it after it crashed. The government support has created a legacy of inequality when left to own devices should have been effectively a reset that may occur every so often by preventing the re set now have record inequality.
So also get people in Ferraris effectively on state aid; So the difference between a chav, a middle class and a upper may be in how well can game the system, how much subsidy can obtain.
Through non-discriminatory direct gov benefits , middle class often direct discriminatory benefits gov benefits ( Scottish gov, university etc) and discriminatory benefits that are collected and distributed through legislation. Then the government subsidy on investment the back stop for the upper class.
So to sum up a chav or ned is possibly someone that claims non-discriminatory benefits at a lower rate through not been able to game the system as well, whereas the typical CCE members is a more sophisticated benefit claimant -), hence the middle class badge akin to a hood ornament on a benz-)
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