The other way you can measure the attitudes of the state towards the poor is to measure the changing attitudes of the state towards the rich. In order to fund this social reform, the Liberals placed a higher taxation rate on the rich. This is significantly different from 1834 when the ‘less eligibility’ principle decreased the poor rate for landowners who saw it to be burdensome prior to the New Poor Law. The poor were no longer being penalised on account of appeasing the richer
The other way you can measure the attitudes of the state towards the poor is to measure the changing attitudes of the state towards the rich. In order to fund this social reform, the Liberals placed a higher taxation rate on the rich. This is significantly different from 1834 when the ‘less eligibility’ principle decreased the poor rate for landowners who saw it to be burdensome prior to the New Poor Law. The poor were no longer being penalised on account of appeasing the richer