Sack cloth and ashes

Is the benefits cap fair?

  • I'm in favour

    Votes: 10 40.0%

  • In favour and needs to be cut more

    Votes: 14 56.0%

  • there should be no cap

    Votes: 1 4.0%
  • Total voters
    25
  • Poll closed .
Bahco

Bahco

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Oh dear life is so unfair to those poor people affected by having to survive on £26000 a year.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23325667

Duncan Smith is quite ruthless and has no sympathy at all and wants to cut the bill by another £6K.

I think people should not be able to keep reproducing at the expense of the taxpayer and hats off to IDS :D
 
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securespark said:
Show me someone actually in receipt of £26K pa.
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There must be people on this type of money out there or this law wouldn't have been brought in.

Probably large families who enjoy the hands out who keep banging kids out with no means to support them. :(
 
Bahco said:
Probably large families who enjoy the hands out who keep banging kids out with no means to support them. :(
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Best you start with the biggest benefit scroungers who are just about to spit another one out.... ;)
 
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Generally, I'm in favour although I think the real solution is being careful to whom the money is given.

In most cases, I believe hand outs should go to those who have at least made some financial contribution to the nation. I'm thinking specifically of foreigners who come to the country and expect us to throw money at them.
 
Not so sure... £26000 sounds a lot certainly, but if you're paying over £1000 a month for rent....
 
No doubt that is true... I fear for issues of economic cleansing, I know £26,000 is a lot,

I really don't know what the answer is.
 
The answer is simple. Give them all a job on minimum wage and let them go and live in houses that people on minimum wage live in. Simples. :confused:
 
I have taken a substantial drop in pay in order to keep myself in employment, and yes its a fair chunk below 26k, but I am not entitled to any benefits such as free eye tests, prescriptions etc.

Its called being able to hold my head up with pride that everything I buy I have worked hard to earn the money for. Pity some are brought up with a totally different outlook. :evil:
 
They had exactly this problem in the early 19th century, when parishes were supposed to give handouts to poor people.
But they kept breeding and the cost of relief went inexorably upwards, as it is today.
Then came the 1834 Act, bringing in the workhouse, and the cost of supporting the poor fell dramatically.
Perhaps there's a lesson here?
 
Whatever the minimum wage is for the area.

Where do London cleaners live?
 
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