It’s time to leave the comfort zone, writes Nicholas Gruen.

Peter Saunders analyses how the welfare state might be transformed to give ordinary people more control over key areas of their lives which are currently managed for them by the government. Saunders demonstates that, to a large extent, we no longer need the welfare state. Most people could afford to buy most of the services...

For too many people it does not pay to work. Higher income earners pay more tax than almost anywhere else in the Western world, and lower and middle income earners face vicious 'effective marginal tax rates', as high income tax is exacerbated by the loss of means-tested family payments. Peter Saunders and Barry Maley argue...