Calls to end middle class benefits
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8319646.stm
Benefits for the middle classes should be taken away to avoid higher taxes, a centre-right think tank has suggested.Reform says payments including maternity pay, child benefit, the winter fuel allowance and TV licences for the elderly could be scrapped.
It says the UK spends £31bn a year on such benefits, equivalent to an extra 8 pence on the basic rate of income tax.
Chancellor Alistair Darling has predicted that public borrowing will reach a record £175bn next year.
Reform says while times are hard, the leanest welfare system focused on the most needy, is all the UK can afford.
It defines middle class as a household where the total income equates to £15,000 a year for each adult and £5,000 per child.
Here's just a few idea's to save some money
1: sack over half of the MPs, especially the ones from different parties who dont really have a job except stand around drinking tax free beer arguing about the other all day long.
2: cut their expenses (an obvious one) and pay them minimum wage (they still get their hundreds of thousands of pounds lobbying money from companies so it's not like they need their actual wages.
3: Get rid of the Royal family and take back all our crown jewels etc, then turn Buckingham palace into the newest tourist destination hot spot, people would just love to take a walk around there, we can also charge them whatever we like, and for added value, the Queen could be there, checking people's coats.
4: perhaps the most obvious one...get rid of the bank of England and print our own money.
Feel free to chime in with any suggestions on how we could save some more money!
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asherp
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The rich want to kill us all and piss on our graves if it means more money for them.
FUCK THE RICH.
- 4 months ago
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asherp
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Newcastle81
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Just a thought what are we to do with the rising number of elderly & vunerable people's bodies when they die due to a lack of heat during the winter, not a wise move I think age concern will have words to shout. As for your ideas Caroline the palace is a tourist attraction already & my MP is not on hundreds of thousands he's on just above minimum wage the same as me thanks to the recession I had to take a wage cut.
- 4 months ago
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Newcastle81
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Gavinbedford
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1: Basically you're advocating a one party state then?
2: MPs don't get hundreds of thousands from lobbyists
3: Buckingham Palace is open to tourists who actually view it as somewhere interesting to go precisely because Britain's monarchy is respected across the globe and because it is still in place.
4: Widespread printing of money is inflationary. - 4 months ago
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Gavinbedford
