Child Benefit.

FATBALLZ

Not voting as child benefit ought to be stopped for everyone not just the people who actually pay the money into the system in the first place.

From what I understand of the changes, I should still be eligible, our household income is £70k but neither of us is a higher rate taxpayer. However this just goes to show if you're young, hardworking and want to make something of your life then you are the enemy of the state. Tax credits taken away, child benefit taken away, tax relief on childcare was to be taken away but thankfully the decision was reversed, got-a-degree tax levied on you as well. Every other group of society seems to get stuff chucked out them, the young idle breeders who have kids they can't afford but get thousands (a month sometimes) in handouts, the middle aged homeowners who get government help to inflate the value of their main asset, and pensioners have too many benefits to list that they never collectively paid enough into the system to justify.

If I was a billionaire I would start a new country tomorrow and send an invitation to all under 30s in full time employment to emigrate there, where they could finally enjoy the fruits of their labours instead of having every other grasping section of society siphoning off wealth that should rightfully be theirs.

Really2

Only poorer families should receive beenfits

FATBALLZ wrote: »

If I was a billionaire I would start a new country tomorrow and send an invitation to all under 30s in full time employment to emigrate there, where they could finally enjoy the fruits of their labours instead of having every other grasping section of society siphoning off wealth that should rightfully be theirs.

Would you not need to be god or a volcano also.

FATBALLZ

Really2 wrote: »

Would you not need to be god or a volcano also.

Billionaires effectively are gods, they money gives them the power to do more or less anything if they give brown envelopes to the right people

Really2

Only poorer families should receive beenfits

FATBALLZ wrote: »

Billionaires effectively are gods, they money gives them the power to do more or less anything if they give brown envelopes to the right people

But you would need some land and infrastructure.

System

Really2 wrote: »

Would you not need to be god or a volcano also.

I bet house prices would be sky high too!

UnderPressure

You now what unusually for me because I tend to have an opinion on most things, with this I just dont know...........................

The one thing I do know is the way the government is dealing with it is in my opinion unfair, how can it be right that if 1 person on the "family" earns 45k a year they lose the child benefit, yet if 2 people in the "family" earn 43k a year each they keep it, this is all wrong the government are punishing and alienating the people in society who do things right, go to work, work hard and earn a good wage, yes they may not need the money but these people are still paying huge amounts of taxes into the system and yet again are being left short changed. It is as though the government is saying sit on your ar*e, do nothing and you will be rewarded, go to work, work hard and we will screw you from every angle imaginable very sad state of affairs me thinks

I sadly am not a high earner so will still be eligible for child benefit deeply unfair on other people after all 45k a year in this day and age, by the time you have paid mortgages and the other amount of bills just to keep your head above water really is not a vast amount of money...............

Sadly I think this is just 1 of a number of cuts that are going to prove unpopular, but in the governments defence a little what are they supposed to do? They have to find so many hundreds of millions of pounds no matter what they do there is going to be a section of society that are going to find each and every cut unpopular terrible times for us all and me fears worst to come

Imelda

I think child benefit should be scrapped altogether, the reasons why it was introduced are no longer relevant. However, removing it now seems to be unfair on those families who have chosen to have one partner stay at home and the other earn just over the £44k threshold. It also unfairly targets those of child bearing/ rearing age- eg 20- 50ish.

I would prefer the money to be spent on free school meals for all children, regardless of their parents' income. I also think that there should be some ability to share tax codes between spouses to give some kind of incentive for stay at home parents.

Surely poorer families would be helped out by CTC anyway? I don't see the need for 2 types of benefits for having children.

chucknorris

Only poorer families should receive beenfits

Radiantsoul wrote: »

£20 per week won't pay for many vices.

It doesn't have to pay for them to be wasted public money, it only has to be spent on them

nearlynew

"middle class to sell their children" ...


http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/middle-class-to-sell-their-children-201010043135/

tomterm8

So, what about stay at home parents pensions rights? At the moment, if you look after a kid and claim child benefit you can get credit for looking after your kid.