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**Chris** · 06-10-2010, 10:19

It can be fair because a family with a single earner on £44,000 is still comfortably above the average earnings in the UK. If they were taking this benefit away from low-earners, then there might be a case for using words like 'fair' and 'unfair' in a perjorative sense.

Personally I think if we're going to get into deciding what's 'fair' we should be looking at the economic situation as a whole rather than focusing on the bits that best facilitate Tory-bashing. What's really unfair is the mess we are all in. What's fair is that this reform will claw back much-needed money from at least some people who can afford it, without costing more money in the process.

06-10-2010, 10:19	#137
Chris Trollsplatter Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 38,224	Re: Child Benefit Scrapped For Higher Rate Tax Payers From 2013 It can be fair because a family with a single earner on £44,000 is still comfortably above the average earnings in the UK. If they were taking this benefit away from low-earners, then there might be a case for using words like 'fair' and 'unfair' in a perjorative sense. Personally I think if we're going to get into deciding what's 'fair' we should be looking at the economic situation as a whole rather than focusing on the bits that best facilitate Tory-bashing. What's really unfair is the mess we are all in. What's fair is that this reform will claw back much-needed money from at least some people who can afford it, without costing more money in the process.