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Originally Posted by kronas
first of all i would like to know here the money is coming from.
secondly this is open to abuse, you can see that if someone was to have a baby for the sake of the cash then have another one to get another years income there is exploitation.
who would ever thought of it, getting paid to bring up a child in its first year. 
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How's it to be paid for? Reducing the 80% increase in governmental cost in the last 7 years would go someway to achieving this.
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...ost+government
Votewinning, it gets mine.
The simplist thing to do in my opinion would be to be able to share / donate personal allowances. If the non working mum could give her £4500 of freepay and £2000 of 20% pay to the working partner this would be a great boost to the family income pot and be quicker and easier to administer than this new payment, all it would require is an adjustment line in both of the couples tax codes.
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Originally Posted by orangebird
This really annoys me - why should my taxes go towards paying for someone else to sit at home on their backsides because they had a baby they couldn't afford?  |
Your taxes are not going to someone sitting on their backside. Bringing up a 0 year old is not a 30 hr a week job (as your sister will testify), hopefully it was planned, and hopefully it is rewarding, but all children are expensive.
These children (and yours) will in time be contributing to the economy to support you in later life, the bulk of the UK benefits system works on a current funding process, so if the working population reduces, the cash for benefits reduces. Children are usually good for the economy and should be encouraged.