[Tubby Isaacs]

The places where Reform do best will certainly miss the money at aggregate level if benefits are slashed. But the Reform voters are not necessarily the people who would personally lose money.

You can see why Reform do this stuff from a political point of view. It’s what US Republicans do very successfully. You frame it as money going to the lazy and black, or Muslim, as it would be here. Lots of the affected whites don’t vote and the blacks don’t vote for them.