my god, this lot are stopping childcare vouchers now

The_White_Horse

and replacing it with some drivel.

also, no assistance to families with only one earner. only two earner families.

disgraceful. these tories need to be shot.

Xiderpunk

Sorry, as a tax payer why should I be responsible for paying for other peoples children?

System

An article.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21833929

MrsE_2

The_White_Horse wrote: »

and replacing it with some drivel.

also, no assistance to families with only one earner. only two earner families.

disgraceful. these tories need to be shot.

I can't understand why nursery places aren't given to working households first anyway.
If you don't work, it isn't essential.

The_White_Horse

Xiderpunk wrote: »

Sorry, as a tax payer why should I be responsible for paying for other peoples children?

for many reasons, but the main two are that when you are old and alone, those other people's children will be the ones looking after you and also, when you want to draw your state pension, it will be paid from other people's children that are working.

you will depend on other people's children for your very existence. so have some respect for your future saviours.

The_White_Horse

also other people paid for your education, so now is time for you to pay something back.

Xiderpunk

The_White_Horse wrote: »

for many reasons, but the main two are that when you are old and alone, those other people's children will be the ones looking after you and also, when you want to draw your state pension, it will be paid from other people's children that are working.

you will depend on other people's children for your very existence. so have some respect for your future saviours.

Wrong on all counts, I will not receive a state pension due to having paid into a private pension for most of my working life. In fact I have never received a penny from the state ever.

Correct me if I am wrong but it is up to the parents of that child to support it. If they can't support it then they should not have had it in the first place. Your assertion that it is 'disgraceful' that tax payers are not going to support these children is exactly how I feel about the parents of those children.

Xiderpunk

The_White_Horse wrote: »

also other people paid for your education, so now is time for you to pay something back.

Yes my parents paid for it.

notanewuser

Good. It's the government's insistence on 'propping up' childcare fees for low earners that has caused prices to rise so high in the first place.

tberry6686

Perhaps someone can explain why I should be paying for other peoples childcare costs.

If people can't afford childcare then they should stay at home and look after them themselves.

It's about time the having kids gravy train hit the buffers. The country can't afford for it not to.

chris_m

Xiderpunk wrote: »

Correct me if I am wrong but it is up to the parents of that child to support it. If they can't support it then they should not have had it in the first place.

10/10

It's a different case if people were originally able to afford to bring up their kids then their circumstances changed due to circumstances (eg redundancy, illness or injury preventing work) outside their control, in which case they should get help, but people shouldn't budget for getting handouts in the decision to have 'em in the first place.