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I'm not talking about you or stereotyping in any way I was quite specific, still if you want to take offence that's your prerogative.

Clearly commenting on paying a ton of rent for a not very large maisonette is 'bragging'. I'm quite sure I've never bragged about my wealth largely because I don't have any worth bragging about.

When you get the opportunity do feel free to read what I wrote again.

I would suggest as an ongoing piece of advice to anyone that if they are not happy with their current income from their job they look for another one, and be prepared to move if necessary. That's what I've always done, nothing to do with 'luck' I just moved to where the work was which is why we've moved 3 times in the past 4 years.

Re: Child Benefit Scrapped For Higher Rate Tax Payers From 2013
 

People do not have children just to get an extra thirteen pounds a week.

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Then you should have said that instead of



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Want to bet on that

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Indeed it was. In fact, if the baby boom didn't happen the when it did, we would be in a far worse position than we are in today.

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I can't see how the plumber in that example gets five thousand pounds a year in housing benefit, when he has a salary of nearly thirty thousand pounds a year.

Re: Child Benefit Scrapped For Higher Rate Tax Payers From 2013
 

That had me puzzled as well :confused: if that's the case then i am owed some housing benefit

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I'm glad I wasn't the only one that wondered about that as well. We ain't eligible for HB and we live on far less ourselves. :confused:

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:rofl:

They were 'red' tax rises though....... ;)

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I am sick of seeing hardworking British people and families punished for the mistakes of greedy banks. I have started a facebook group 'I WILL NOT BAIL OUT BANKS' please join and together we can stop this insanity. Banks are responsible for the deficit let them pay for it!

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Firstly starting a facebook group will make absolutely no difference to the government. If a bail-out is going to help save the economy then they aren't going to change their minds over a little fb page.

Secondly did you join us just to spam your page?

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I still stand by it.

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Bit late with this aren't you? last I heard we'd already bailed them out.

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Already bailed out, most of the deficit is due to nothing more interesting than spending too much in public services and welfare and not charging enough in taxes to cover it, and it's extremely likely the tax payer will see a profit on the bailouts.

But, hey, why let facts get in the way of a good rant, let alone dealing with the very simple fact that the baby boomers and to a lesser extent my generation have had it too good and been mortgaging our kids to get it.

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Ah well now a facebook page has been started to stop something that has already happened i will give dave a call and tell him all is well and he doesn't have to bother with any of those silly austerity measures :rolleyes:. We have a lot of people in this country on perfectly liveable wages getting some form of benefit as that article in the guardian a plumber on £30k getting housing benefit thats where one of the biggest problems is.

Benefit was intended for those who by no fault of their own found themselves in financial hardship and needing help to maintain a liveable standard. We have forgotten that and like so many other things it has been used by numerous governments to get votes and keep people happy. If we cut benefit back to what it is truly intended for and dealt with the tax avoidance problem we would have quite a bit more money to help the country out in other ways.

What makes me laugh and again i heard it recently was a man who openly admits he claims about 11k in various benefits whilst earning over £25k (not saying thats a huge amount) complaining about "lazy benefit claimants" and how the country needs to kick them up the backside it isn't just lower social class people taking the system for a ride they are just judged happily by most to not deserve it..

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I don't think that article was totally accurate. ;)

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Usual clever stuff from the coalition, thank god we have a team in place that thinks everything through so thoroughly, it's that perfect and no doubt the think tank will be on to a huge bonus.:confused:

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Would have thought sticking it to top rate tax payers would be quite pleasing to you?