Besides, public opinion across Europe, Asia and the US is very consistent in considering that the gap between the rich and the poor, in developed and developing countries, is too wide and that the wealthy should pay more taxes. Indeed income inequality has become the most contentious political issue in many countries as Globalization has created a “superclass” of rich people in developed and developing nations but also an increasing number of people living in real and relative poverty.

According to a Harris poll conducted on behalf of the FT, very strong majorities of people in five European countries, ranging from 76 per cent in Spain to 87 per cent in Germany, consider that income inequality has become too great and that the higher paid should pay more in taxation; only Japan, where 65 per cent believe that income inequality is too wide, but this is most probably based on the fact that the gap between the lowest and highest paid in that country is nowhere near the same as in, for example, the US, the UK and other western nations.

In Britain 75 per cent of respondents believe those on low incomes, considered to be less than 60 per cent of the median income or less than £16,000 a year, should pay much less in income taxation and this is the primary reason for the furore over the scrapping of the 10p rate of income taxation; in China, which has seen incredible rates of growth during the last two decades, 80 per cent of respondents said that income inequality is now far too great; and, in the same poll conducted in the US, which is normally seen as tolerant of income inequality, 78 per cent of respondents also believe that the gap is too wide and that taxation should be changed to increase the burden on the higher earners.

In Britain income inequality is a result of the continuing loss of our industrial and manufacturing base coupled with the outsourcing, off-shoring or exporting of jobs in the service sector call centre work in IT, telecommunications, banking and finance, insurance and travel. Once those jobs are lost then, just like selling off the family silver and the family gold, it will be very difficult to get them back.

Every one has to pay 2.50% of his savings every year to poor people.And this rule apply on a certain date of every year.It is one of the greatest rule but even not Muslim follows it.

It’s about the causes of poverty, a real discussion on what causes it, whose fault it is etc…as you know David Cameron recently criticised those living in poor areas in Britain because they didn’t do enough to get themselves out of the situation.

This is an interesting place to debate as there are conflicting opinions on whose fault poverty really is – those who are poor or the rich?

As for the whiners who bang on about violence against women, unequal pay for women and lack of choices, they should really look long and deep. It’s a fact, a woman does the same job as a man, she is paid the same – it’s illegal not to do so. Women working longer hours than men? That really depends on what you count as work and most surveys show( when ALL work is included, men in fact still work longer hours. Women in general CHOOSE lower paid work and a question to ask any woman is “how much do you pay your cleaner?” You can bet it ain’t the £8ph they may be earning in a call center – so who keeps their pay low? As for violence against women, more comprehensive surveys demonstrate 70% of all domestic violence is instigated by the woman (32 nation survey), women go for divorce in around 70% of all cases. So who is the greatest cause of female and child poverty?

The best way to defeat all these socials ills is really education. Educate people to a higher expectation of moral, ethical and social values but be prepared to give a helping hand to those unable to reach up. And those undeserving poor that will always be with us? Well, you can take them out of a slum but you can’t take the slum out of them- leave them to it.

Am I bitter, hmm yes.