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Originally Posted by Osem
The DWP bill is the UK's biggest so it's bound to be the focus of attention isn't it? Wherever cuts fall one group or other will say they're being attacked. Remember the Granny Tax? Is the only answer no cuts, no matter what? So HMG carries on spending more on the NHS and more on welfare etc., where do the long term savings come from? Would everyone be happy to pay more tax or are we going to ask the better off and companies to pay more tax when there's evidence that increasing higher rate taxes tends to lead to lower overall revenues in one way or another by hitting investment and encouraging avoidance.
Scrapping foreign aid would be very popular amongst voters so if HMG just wanted to be cynical and buy some much needed votes at home why don't they do that?
It'd be great if there were easy and pain free answers to all our woes but I seem to recall that being pretty much what the last lot said and where did that lead us?
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Maybe the biggest bt they are focusing on the least guilty off it.
ATos, g4s and other corporate parasite scrounging taking more out than the unemployed and disabled.
We should raise minimum wage to ease the tax credit burden. Only help those businesses like small companies who clearly would struggle to pay higher minimum wage.
Cap the rental market to stop landards thieving there cake.
More we can do than hurt those at the bottom feeding chain.