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Child Benefit fiasco: cuts 'unravelling' already...

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  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    carolt wrote: »
    Make no mistake - this is the whole point.

    What, like the housing benefit cuts you're so in favour of.....
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
    -- President John F. Kennedy”
  • carolt
    carolt Posts: 8,531 Forumite
    Hauptmann wrote: »
    As a 'moderate' Tory supporter my biggest reservations were always about 'Boy' George. Many in the party (including Ken Clarke) didn't feel he was up to the job and I think they've been proved correct. They have walked into a massive elephant trap with this CB fiasco and it doesn't bode well for any future cuts. I am really astonished at how badly thought through this is.

    Oh, I couldn't agree more.
  • carolt
    carolt Posts: 8,531 Forumite
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »
    What, like the housing benefit cuts you're so in favour of.....

    Yes, absolutely.
  • chucky
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    Graham_Devon wrote: »
    Her, I beleive.

    And be nice to the ladies chucky.
    makes it even more amusing :)
  • carolt
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    DaddyBear wrote: »
    Seriously Carol, get over yourself. Families where one person is earning enough to be a top rate tax payer, do not NEED child benefit. I'm a top rate payer and am happy to do without for the greater good. Next they need to go after tax credits which also need to be capped IMO.
    I suggest you accept it or go out and get a fracking job.

    I have a fracking job. Several, thanks.

    But as they have to fit in with school hours, my earning power is necessarily limited.

    Maybe your earnings are higher than ours, or your fixed costs smaller?

    I can't say.

    I refer you to the 900-odd posts on the mumsnet thread I posted the link to - you'll find I'm far from the only mother who is very concerned as to how they are going to get by when the cuts are introduced.
  • carolt
    carolt Posts: 8,531 Forumite
    FTBFun wrote: »
    Should have kept better care of his teeth, then.

    Not to be rude, but that is one of the more idiotic posts I've read on here.
  • StevieJ
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    Graham_Devon wrote: »
    Her, I beleive.

    And be nice to the ladies chucky.

    Mmmm Beaver, makes sense icon7.gif but I think he meant Badger, so Badger is really a Beaver? I am amazed
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • Really2
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    carolt wrote: »
    I have a fracking job. Several, thanks.

    But as they have to fit in with school hours, my earning power is necessarily limited.

    Don't all teaching jobs?

    So do the several jobs not add a fair amount on top of your husbands £44K+ job?
  • Hauptmann
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    GeneHunt wrote: »
    Up to a point... you don't think Vince and David Cameron should have noticed that this was a tad problematic?!

    Indeed. I wonder if Vince Cable was fully aware of this proposal? Seems hard to believe that someone of his obvious intellect would not have spotted the pitfalls. Its just so obvious that this was not going to play well it leaves you open-mouthed that they went through with it. Basing it on household income would have been much fairer and have chimed in nicely with Tory values. There will HAVE to be some modification - perhaps handing back money via a married couple's allowance.
  • Hauptmann
    Hauptmann Posts: 93 Forumite
    Really2 wrote: »
    Don't all teaching jobs?

    Hmm. My sister is a teacher and she seems to work 8am-6pm most days. Plus does a lot of work evenings and on Sundays - the pay is pretty poor too. For all the long holidays I don't envy her one little bit. Its a lousy job IMHO.
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