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So why do you think higher earners are happy to stay blinking in the darkness of Scandinavian countries whilst paying higher taxes? My partner is working in one right now and the photos he is sending back are stunning. Beautiful clean streets. Amazing scenery. I’d move there in a heartbeat. If you can’t recognise just how dilapidated this country has become you really need to get out more. Nothing works. Literally nothing works.

I cannot believe that people on here are moaning how squeezed they are on £140k bringing up one child yet think someone getting £25k a year with masses of children is rolling in money and having the life of Riley

it doesn’t make logical sense

surely they have 5-6 times that amount so must be living a life of luxury according to their own logic

Hypocrisy how? When I’m arguing in favour of a two child cap not a zero child cap. Yeah I had one child when I was super young but then I didn’t have any more until I was in a better place financially. It was brought in because some people took the piss having ten kids and expecting everyone else to pay

Rubbish

rose tinted glasses

look forward to adjusting to 20 hours of dark

"lol removing the two child cap was deeply unpopular...you forgot to say "among everyone I know, and I make sure only to socialise with people who think exactly like me". Maybe you should get out more.

It's a practical measure that will have an immediate positive effect and has a lot of support. I'm not particularly interested in what single mothers who lived on benefits for years think about it.

No but I didn’t have any more children until I was older and in a better place financially. It was a two child cap not a zero child cap I support

Because their country is beautiful and functional not a bin fire like the UK. If I had money I’d hotfoot it out of here so fast you wouldn’t see my arse on the way out.

Erm not quite true

I could have claimed carers allowance for caring for mum ( I do care for her as I did her husband till he died ) and whilst claiming it, Id have had my pension payments also paid for by the tax payer

I actually only paid my missing years ( the years where I was unwell or caring for parents so not working - or claiming ) recently and still have to work another 5 years and I only managed to pay those years and ill health made me claim my Private pension so I had a small lump sum

I know plenty of people on the road to full pension who have claimed benefits all their working lives

I am in full support of it. I am not a politician, and my two children are adults now. I am also genuinely in the "squeezed middle" as in I earn £30,000 p/a, not £100k.

I won't benefit at all from this budget; I'll pay slightly more tax, but I am not in the slightest bit upset by it. It is doing what taxes should do and taking more from those who can afford to pay more while supporting those who need it most.

Most 15 year olds don't get pregnant. They know better.

What I'm pointing out is your hypocrisy. Unsurprisingly, you can't see it. I won't comment on your very evident lack of understanding of why the two-child cap was introduced in the first place (hint: it wasn't because of what "most people" thought).

Did you support your own child, as a teenager?

You’re welcome, btw.

lol removing the two child cap was deeply unpopular with everyone except labour backbenchers and people with a multitude of kids they can’t support

Wow, it "got a lot of likes" did it. On a social media platform. Gosh, you must be "right" then, if your post "got a lot of likes".

How many "likes" is "a lot"? 3? 5? 15? Do tell.

As well as impact on mental health

people who think people have babies to get off work are deluded

the same people say “I love work, it’s easier than being at home raising kids” and moan about the strain their partners don’t do childcare and what an easy life they subsequently have while they are left holding the baby

For you it’s not different because you’re arguing with me and trying to make it personal 😉. But for most other people it is different that’s why it was a two child cap and not a zero child cap. Also I got pregnant at 15 not the same as grown women who should know better getting pregnant multiple times while expecting everyone else to pay

Bit different from having multiple children while on benefits expecting tax payers to fund them

For the taxpayer - me - it's no different at all. You chose to have a child without being able to support it and expected taxpayers to do that for you.

Do it. If you genuinely believe you will be financially better off being unemployed and having lots of children, then do it.

I suspect you won't because you know full well you are far better off working, short-term and especially in the long-term.

It’s a solid, sensible budget and frankly I’m surprised and pleased.

The fact that some people are foaming at the mouth even though they’ll continue to be comfortable just boggles the mind.

You do realise that we’ve got an ageing population and need people to have kids so there are enough working people to pay for future pensions?

You do realise the vast majority of benefit claimants are in work? And that it’s false economy to have children in poverty?

I see the tired old vitriol for benefit scroungers is overriding any sense of reason or logic. The question “Why should I pay for others” totally misses the point. We all benefit. Next you’ll be wanting your taxes for the NHS back because Maggie next door, has been to the GP 4 times this year and you’ve only been once. After all, why should you pay for other people who are so careless as to get sick?

Not at all
pay for your own family, that is what should be encouraged

If you want more kids you should be able to pay for them yourself, why should I go to work to support your choices ? Utter madness , might have a few myself and stop working 🙄 not.

You say you worked for fifty years so... you're now a pensioner and claiming the state pension.

Everyone is (or should be) aware that you can't retrospectively "pay' to increase the state pension or other benefits. You can pay (before claiming the pension) to make up gaps in your NI record so you get the full amount. But if there were gaps in your NI record, you didn't work anywhere close to 50 years.

I suggest you think of a story that sounds halfway believable.

I think Rachel Reeves made a pretty good fist of a virtually impossible job, and quite a lot of the stuff being posted here is hyperbolic drivel.

I didn't have any children and never minded paying tax for other people's kids.
I would rather that then have children raised in poverty for whatever reason.

Anybody who voted for Brexit needs to stop moaning about the budget. You’re getting the financial landscape you voted for.