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Originally Posted by Chris
I refer members to my standard right-of-centre response to this issue.
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Originally Posted by Derek
My wages have dropped over the last year. Why should benefits automatically increase at or above inflation every year when wages don't?
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Another way of looking at it is that Government is repeatedly introducing cuts that penalise those who are at the bottom end of the pay scale while seemingly ignoring the measures taken by those at the top end of the pay scale to minimise the amount of tax paid (and I am talking about both individuals and companies). Tax which can amount to 100s of millions of pounds.
The government can reduce the debt in two ways. Decrease expenditure (which is what they are trying) or increase income. This is a concept that, frankly, seems to escape the Tories, as well as the Liberal Democrats.