Higher rates 83% reduced to 40%
Basic Rated 33% to 25%
43% reduction for high earners vs 8% reduction for the every day working man/woman.
Factor in inflation 21.9% in 1980 and it looks like the wealthy - poor gap considerably widened.
The %age of people below the median income (a measure of poverty) increased from 13.4% to 22.2%.
Teh inequality score raised from 0.253 to 0.339 under Thatcher's term as PM.
People talk about today's squeezed middle classes, the working classes have been being squeezed for decades. Their voice (for better or worse) was the Unions - which she crushed.