These outlays are wasteful and mostly benefit better-off people who own vehicles, or farm large plots of land.
Ministers had claimed that free schools would not disproportionately benefit better-off families and would empower working-class families.
These include wealth taxes and measures to closing tax breaks on mortgage expenditure and pension contributions – incentives that largely benefit better-off individuals.
We carried a news story on Thursday which made the important point that the Liberal Democrat policy of raising the point at which people start to pay income tax tends to benefit better-off households.
The results of this study show evidence of inequities in public health care utilization that benefit better-off people in the slum areas in urban Hanoi in Vietnam.
In the slum areas, our analysis of the distribution of actual need, predicted need, standardized need, and the decomposition index all provide evidence of inequities in the use of medical care that benefit better-off people.
An unreformed social security system still benefits better-off households more than the destitute.
Vastly increasing university places has done nothing to help: it has benefited better-off families, while only 3% more poor children have taken up the new places.
Yet he was elected Labour leader on a promise to abolish them, and only switched a year later to cutting them – which is in any case a policy that benefits better-off graduates.
But while such urban renewal projects may have benefited better-off Paulistanos who lived and worked in and around downtown São Paulo, they had an adverse effect on the lives of the city's working-class residents.
Andrew Symington Managing director, Symington Elvery Am I the only one to notice that the fiscal measures supposedly aimed at "Jams" (Easing austerity: Options for Hammond, 21 November) – air passenger duty cut, freeze on fuel duty, increased personal tax allowance, increased Isa limits – in fact benefit the better off as much if not more?
