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Originally Posted by Chris
Besides, even if it doesn't make a vast difference to the national coffers, there is an important principle at stake here. We should not be in a position of making non-work more financially rewarding than work because that is simply unfair. Society only works in the long run when everyone agrees that the overall settlement is fair. That's why we don't have bloody revolution every 5 years when a party more than half of us didn't vote for gets into power. Any aspects of unfairness must be addressed, even if they don't by themselves raise a billion for the exchequer.
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Sorry, but from where I'm standing the settlement is rapidly becoming unfair because the poor and vulnerable are getting squeezed at every opportunity with little reagard for practicality or effectiveness in the grander scheme of things.
We really are talking peanuts in comparison with the amounts of money lost in tax avoidance by individuals and companies yet I hear very few of our politicians going on about making sure the important principle of paying your fair share is adhered to. Instead, it's looking more like "let's squeeze the poor a bit more, because they're an easy target, and we can".