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Massive benefits cuts
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That will make it so much easier to afford the welfare bill, the fact that apparently the cost is less than some people think.
The cost is less than people think. So why the witch hunt by the Tories? Oh yes, to divide and conquer.
"There's a storm coming, Mr. Tory. You and your friends better batten down the hatches, because when it hits, you're all gonna wonder how you ever thought you could live so large and leave so little for the rest of us."0 -
Ionkontrol wrote: »The cost is less than people think. So why the witch hunt by the Tories? Oh yes, to divide and conquer
Not according to your quote. According to your quote the value of certain benefits is believed to be higher than they actually are.
I suspect people would be appalled to know the actual cost of the welfare state: almost £400,000,000,000 a year excluding education.0 -
Ionkontrol wrote: »
I notice they didn't include the £113.68 child tax credit and £33.70 child benefit the couple would get so I wonder what the 3% includes0 -
Apparently these cuts are going to impact some working families by as much as £200 a year. That's nearly £5 a week.
How the fr1gging hell is anyone supposed to cope with this devastating reduction in benefits????????
Surely this is more than offset by the increased personal allowances on your tax that you have received over the last couple of years, and which you would not have received under Labour, who like to tax people, especially the poor.
Remember the removal of the 10% tax rate?
But yes, what cuts? How does it apply to you?0 -
The question i would ask is how we got into a situation where working people needed benefits at all.
We don't subsidies coal mines or big industrial jobs any more but we are happy to subsidies companies paying low wages. Fundamentally private sector companies only employ people they need so all we are doing is taxing people to support either company profits or jobs in uneconomic areas.0 -
The question i would ask is how we got into a situation where working people needed benefits at all.
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Bingo. That is the key question. The answer to of course is : socialism.No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well.
The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.
Margaret Thatcher0 -
The question i would ask is how we got into a situation where working people needed benefits at all.
We don't subsidies coal mines or big industrial jobs any more but we are happy to subsidies companies paying low wages. Fundamentally private sector companies only employ people they need so all we are doing is taxing people to support either company profits or jobs in uneconomic areas.
Isn't the main reason that we restrict house building below its natural level whilst allowing the population to increase. There is no reason that housing should cost more than agricultural land plus build cost plsu profit.I think....0 -
The question i would ask is how we got into a situation where working people needed benefits at all.
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Because giving benefits to working people puts more money in their pocket without causing wage inflation.
Plus it helps to pursuade such people to make the 'correct' voting decision0 -
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