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YouGov finds voters hugely over-estimate benefit cheating, though only 26% think people could live on Iain Duncan Smith's £53 a week.
In other countries, when you jam up the tax take and offer extremely generous benefits, you see pathologies that the right predicts: high rates of unemployment (particularly youth unemployment), fleeing capital, lower gross domestic product growth (thanks to the "deadweight loss" of all that taxation) and, yes, benefit cheating.
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