Tories' tax breaks for married couples - would it make you change your mind?

Sapphire

marklv wrote: »

A vote for the Conservatives is a wasted vote. Just wait until they get in power, you'll see. There isn't much difference between the two anyway.

The difference is that labour have proved themselves to be utterly incompetent liars. I also believe it is dangerous for any one party to be in power for too long.

marklv

Sapphire wrote: »

The difference is that labour have proved themselves to be utterly incompetent liars. I also believe it is dangerous for any one party to be in power for too long.

The Tories were in power for 18 years between 1979 and 1997.

Kohoutek

This is a stupid policy, it's time to abolish all the 'free stuff' like non-means tested Winter Fuel Allowance, free TV Licences, the absurd upper bands for Housing Benefit etc, not add more. It's an easy way of saving money to reduce the deficit that doesn't involve lay-offs or salami slicing departmental budgets. Most voters are intelligent enough to realise we can't afford stuff like that anymore, surely?

Spartacus_Mills

marklv wrote: »

The Tories were in power for 18 years between 1979 and 1997.

I think that emphasises Sapphire's point.

drc

Would help us although £150 per year is a drop in the ocean and equivalent to our monthly council tax, however "every little helps".

lvader

Wouldn't a couple with 1 high rate tax payer benefit £300?

carolt

No. They'd get nothing.

tomterm8

CLAPTON wrote: »

more interest is the fact that it's going to be funded by a special tax on the banks.

once the principle is established that there is a regular banking tax then of course it can easily be increased to pay for other socially desirable ends.

and increased it surely will be

So they are going to pay for a regular yearly give-away, via a one-off windfall tax... hrmph.

That sounds fiscally responsible, and not at all just a bribe to the electorate to get into office.

Squish_21

Nah it actually puts me off voting for them. Absoloutely pointless and stupid idea!!!

whathavewedone

At the moment families are better off single than they are married despite the fact that research shows children do better with married parents than they do with unmarried parents.

The amount is small but the country is skint and even though it's a gesture I think it's the right sort of gesture.

No one is going to be penalised as the child tax credits system already favours single parents over married parents and that isn't going to change. No one is going to lose out despite Ed Balls' ridiculous emotive rants today about widows from soldiers who die in Afghanistan (like anyone believes Labour really give a toss about them) or battered wives who are left by their husbands.

I don't think many people will vote tory because of this but it demonstrates what they stand for. Either you like it or you don't. I like it personally.