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Offline rob.043

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Benefits. for or against a cap?
« on: 01 February 2012, 15:40 »
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16812185

Ok so Raymond and his partner are prolific breeders and have loads of children to support, but could they not easly live for the capped rate if they cut out the 24 cans of lager and 200 fags A WEEK!  :shocked: :lipsrsealed: :rolleyes: :laugh: :huh: :cry: :sick:

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Re: Benefits. for or against a cap?
« Reply #1 on: 01 February 2012, 16:07 »
Cap it
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Re: Benefits. for or against a cap?
« Reply #2 on: 01 February 2012, 16:12 »
For.

Fed up of having my tax paying for people that aren't willing to work and pay their way.

In that case, they shouldn't have had so many children

Offline JulesS3

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Re: Benefits. for or against a cap?
« Reply #3 on: 01 February 2012, 16:18 »
Dont really care, they are still going to take nearly a grand off me in tax every month

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Re: Benefits. for or against a cap?
« Reply #4 on: 01 February 2012, 16:26 »
Dont really care, they are still going to take nearly a grand off me in tax every month

I'm self employed, so am not very forthcoming when it comes to paying tax, so I don't care either.
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Re: Benefits. for or against a cap?
« Reply #5 on: 01 February 2012, 16:41 »
I'm not ususally one who is picky over words so long as the meaning is clear. But in this case we really, really need to stop referring to them as benefits and bring back the stigma of living long term off the state.

Benefit - positive connotations; advantage, perk of living here.
Welfare - living off the charity of others.

Eliminate monetary payments altogether. Each week a ration book is given, food, bills, clothes, etc.
Diminishing child tax credits. Those who wish to live long term off the state have a basic existence.

As (morally speaking) we can't cull them, we really need to socially engineer the dross from society, otherwise they grow exponentially.

When you hear about people driving a new 1.4 TSI on f**king mobility.
That's what really sets me off on a rage.
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Re: Benefits. for or against a cap?
« Reply #6 on: 01 February 2012, 16:47 »
In theory yes i am for the cap.
But anyone that gets more than 26k a year, what exactly is this made up of?
Also the problem of unemployment won't go away. We are going to see unemployment continuing to rise.
There isn't enough jobs for everyone, so what do we do?
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Offline Ess_Three

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Re: Benefits. for or against a cap?
« Reply #7 on: 01 February 2012, 16:57 »
Also the problem of unemployment won't go away. We are going to see unemployment continuing to rise.
There isn't enough jobs for everyone, so what do we do?

The trouble is, there ARE plenty of jobs, but they tend to be lower paid and carried out by non-UK nationals who are prepared to work where bone idle Brits think menial/low paid work is below them...so they'd rather sit at home and expect the taxpayer to pay for their rent/beer/fags/plasma TV and Sky.

If it were up to me, if you don't work, and haven't paid into the system (to make sure the honest get a help out if thet genuinely need it) then you'd get a sh!t house in a sh!t area and basic food vouchers.
A new car, foreign holidays, Sky TV, iPhone etc should not be attainable by the bone idle, lazy, theiving toe-rags who think the State should owe them a good income.

The minimum wage should be increased to make sure people can actuallt live on it...and Taxpayers handouts all but stopped, so this insane situation where you 'get more staying at home then you do working' doesn't happen.

And if you can't afford kids...don't breed.

Simples.

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Re: Benefits. for or against a cap?
« Reply #8 on: 01 February 2012, 17:09 »
Completely agree with the above, cap it to 10k..
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Re: Benefits. for or against a cap?
« Reply #9 on: 01 February 2012, 17:24 »
Food stamps.