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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
Some figures to back up that assertion would be good.
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well firstly the figures posted earlier in this thread
220 billion Welfare bill
Government spending 720 billion
http://visual.ons.gov.uk/uk-perspect...ces-in-the-uk/ 600 and something of that comes from the tax payer
JSA 2.353 billion
ESA 13.7 billion
so for point of arguement 16 billion
If you add the housing benefit and all the tax credits to this although these are shared between a much wider demograph you come up to 68 billion this figure is higher than what those on ESA and JSA would be claiming but its a figure so lets say 10% of the total tax an ni take goes to those on ESA and JSA way over estimated
So everyone on the sick and unemployed has a maximum total take off the tax payer of 10% of their tax (already a fraction)
So if 50% of all those claiming were to be swinging the lead you get a maximum of 5% the total tax take again massively over estimated
all figures taken from the graph here
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...12billion.html
Now lets look at the DWPs fraud and error levels
2013/14 are complete
Total 3.4 billion lost in total of which 2.2 was claimant or official error 1.3 % of expenditure 1.2 billion lost to fraud 0.7 % expenditure
https://www.gov.uk/government/upload...al_Release.pdf
Now I am not a mathematician but it is clear to me the very highest lost to the workshy is 5% of the whole tax and NI take down to 0.7 % of 2013/14s welfare bill which is something stupid like 0.15% of the whole take
So I stand firmly by the belief that only a fraction of our tax goes to the work shy