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**Chris** · 01-04-2013, 11:58

Benefit changes affect poor people because poor people claim benefits. This is not rocket science.

Rich people are paying vastly more tax now than they were 5 years ago, but this does not have any radical effect on them because they are rich. This, also, is not rocket science.

You could expropriate every rich man's bank account as they have done in Cyprus and share out the proceeds evenly among the whole population and it wouldn't cure poverty. In fact all it would do would harm the spending and earning potential of the very people who pay the most tax and therefore contribute the most to the benefits bill. If you want proof of this, take a look back at the old eastern bloc, where everyone was rewarded equally regardless of what they did. The result was not nations full of happy equal people. The result was nations full of impoverished, frightened people who eventually overthrew the system by force.

Some people are rich, some people are poor. That's life.

01-04-2013, 11:58	#2
Chris Trollsplatter Cable Forum Team Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 36,910	re: Poor affected - The Rich not affected again - why? Benefit changes affect poor people because poor people claim benefits. This is not rocket science. Rich people are paying vastly more tax now than they were 5 years ago, but this does not have any radical effect on them because they are rich. This, also, is not rocket science. You could expropriate every rich man's bank account as they have done in Cyprus and share out the proceeds evenly among the whole population and it wouldn't cure poverty. In fact all it would do would harm the spending and earning potential of the very people who pay the most tax and therefore contribute the most to the benefits bill. If you want proof of this, take a look back at the old eastern bloc, where everyone was rewarded equally regardless of what they did. The result was not nations full of happy equal people. The result was nations full of impoverished, frightened people who eventually overthrew the system by force. Some people are rich, some people are poor. That's life.