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Income Policy?

Is there a Christian view on incomes? Everyone surely, whether employed or not, needs a certain minimum income to enable them to live in a reasonably civilised manner. But what else can be said?

Do we leave the ‘addition’ to the iron laws of the market, of supply and demand? Or do we, in a cost of living crisis, say that there should be a fair incomes policy? And perhaps that policy should put doctors, train drivers, post persons and hedge fund managers on the same scale. After a basic level has been determined there could be modest increments for experience and responsibility. Many I think, inside and outside the Church, would consider this a reasonable response to our present industrial discontents.

Cartoon: Bill McArthur

Andrew McLuskey, Ashford, Middlesex

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