and duncan smith, secretary of state for work and pensions for the united kingdom. we are truly appreciative he has been able to adjust his schedule to join us today for a few minutes. the united kingdom is currently undertaking significant reforms to its welfare and tax benefit programs to streamline their administration and reduce marginal tax rates so that work always pays. this is an issue that i have cared about for many years and we have been watching closely many of the developments in great written as these reforms have been undertaken in what appears to be a bipartisan manner. he has graciously agreed to share with information about the recent reforms. in the u.k. which will be the effect is as if our program. mr. secretary we did a little digging through our archives and with the help of the experts in the congressional resource service we were not able to find another example of of the sitting foreign secretary appearing before the ways & means committee on nontrade matter so this is actually a historic asian. we are honored to have you join us today and

ian duncan smith, secretary of state for work and pensions for the united kingdom. we're appreciative he's joined tus d. the united kingdom is undertaking significant reforms to its tax benefit programs and reduce marginal tax rates. this is an issue that i've cared about for many years. we've been watching closely many of the developments in great britain as these reforms have been undertaken in a bipartisan manner and he's agreed to share with us information about these recent reforms in the uk, which will be useful as we consider the effectiveness of our own program. mr. secretary, we did a little digging through our archives, and we're not able to find another example of a sitting foreign secretary appearing before the ways and means committee on non-trade matters. so this is a historic occasion. honored to have you join us today and please proceed with your statement. >> mr. chairman, thank you very much indeed. it's a pleasure to be here and rather satisfying in the surroundings. i'm used to doing my answering across the dispatch box and the house of commons b

i was able to listen to some of the testimony of our distinguished guests, the honorable duncan smith. i must say that as a britainer, he must appreciate the fact that britain is the country with probably the least social mobility among the oecd states which means that you can predict people's social mobility more by their father's station, whether they were a duke or earl, what their income was, than you can than with anything welfare would have done. and i say that with all due respect, mr. chairman. and i mean it with all due respect, that the title of this hearing, how welfare and tax benefits can discourage work, is at best a misnomer and at worst, it's nonsequitor. it doesn't talk at all about if structural intent of these welfare programs. i want to quote, since i see my time is expiring, against my will, i would just like to quote from charles dickens. i think that's appropriate, given our first panel. the theme of david copperfield focuses on orphans, women and the mentally disabled to show that exploitation, not pity or compassion, is the rule of an industrial society. so wh

secretary duncan smith's presentation, as well as the testimony of our witnesses will help us as we consider making changes on this side of the atlantic, as well. two weeks ago when president obama spoke in cleveland, ohio in the state of the economy, he talked about his vision for how we need to provide ladders of opportunities for folks who aren't yet in the middle class. today, we'll consider whether the multitude of programs create effective ladders of opportunity or missing important runs. to explain this complicated topic, one of our witnesses describes an income dead zone which a family earning $40,000 per year is barely better off financially than a family not working at all. once all tax credits are taken into account. other experts call this phenomena a poverty trap. he says the bottom line is if you're poor, the government is ensuring that you have little incentive to improve your condition. what it boils down to is this, the more benefits the government provides, the stronger the disincentive to work harder. many of the programs in question are designed to alleviate poverty, but

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