Anyone on 110 per week pays at a higher effective rate than someone earning five times as much. One reason why most people don't notice these things, is that although these idiotic rates are quite real, only one point on the chart affects each individual, and naturally most people only concern themselves with that point. This becomes clear when you look at the same situation under the amalgamated tax system. Similar charts can of course be drawn up for each different category. Working whilst claiming benefit' becomes evasion of a particularly onerous tax.
Moral outrage begins to look sanctimonious to say the least.
The Green Party need set no time limit on substantive changes in the direction of a Citizens Income because the clamour for them would very quickly become overwhelming. The costings on pages 22-24 assume a Citizens Income at JobSeeker's Allowance levels. 72bn is the cost to the taxpayer of doing nothing more than exposing and then flattening the regressive curve revealed in Fig. 2. As this is well below the original value of Supplementary Benefits, this may well be considered to be inadequate, but the crucial first step is to get everyone to understand the principle, with as few complications as possible.