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*UK Church blames govt. for inequality* Sun Nov 6, 2011 5:45PM GMT <http://www.reddit.com/submit?title=UK%20Church%20blames%20govt.%20for%20inequality> Reddit<http://www.reddit.com/submit?title=UK%20Church%20blames%20govt.%20for%20inequality> A British high-ranking archbishop has lashed out at the coalition government's policies, which created huge inequalities and widened poor-rich gap in the society. John Sentamu, who is the second most important figure in the Church of England deplored the government for paying high salaries to top executives, saying that huge differences between the rich and poor "weaken community life and make societies less cohesive", *Yorkshire Post* reported. Archbishop Sentamu said that the excesses in the financial sector have created huge inequalities in wealth, "demonstrating how scandalously unfair our society is." Sentamu called for a change in public attitudes towards excessive personal wealth as profound and rapid as moves against racism, homophobia and sex discrimination in recent decades. "If they [FTSE 100 chief executives] have a responsibility to their staff, it is hard to imagine a more powerful way of telling someone that they are of little value than to pay them one-third of one per cent of your salary,” he said. "Among the ill-effects of very large income differences between rich and poor are that they weaken community life and make societies less cohesive," added the archbishop. Sentamu called for a change of ethics regarding excessively high incomes and the accumulation of private wealth. "But over last few decades the gains from economic growth have gone disproportionately to those who already have the most," said the archbishop. Sentamu criticized the Queen for giving her so-called "Queen's honours" to those who have already rewarded themselves handsomely, and called for the status quo to change. He also called on the government to crack down on tax avoidance, including a proposal to put a tick-box on tax forms to allow contributions to be made public. "Given the government's attempts to reduce the public spending deficit, each thousand pounds of tax avoided presumably means an additional thousand pounds of cuts to public services on which the least well-off are particularly dependent," the archbishop added. MOL/PKH
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