I don't want to pay more fucking tax!

[marthainthemarket]

I am the sole earner in a family of four, earning just under 40k a year and getting probably fuck all or below inflation pay increase next year, if I am lucky enough to keep my job ( public sector and employer needing to make massive budget savings). I barely cope now.

I am so fucking angry that Labour fucked up the disability benefit cuts. Other countries don't have run away disability benefits crises because they have a proper assessment process that means they keep a lid on people getting disability benefits who don't really need them. But instead of dealing with that, they came up with a crap proposed cut that wouldn't have dealt with the actual issues and they couldn't defend.

And having fucked that up they are now raising everyone's tax. I hate them!

I'm certain they'd guess. The other neighbours won't report them, because they're getting cheap gardening.

I feel similarly about Labour.

Could you post the source please?

Why do you want even more people to claim?! Insane.

I saw that thread, she was told to continue to live separately. No gaming and cheating of the system ever goes on does it...

I feel similarly about Labour.

Really? I thought you were a labour voter!

Oh god, yes. Sadly I feel it’s the same lot who voted for Brexit. Why on earth would you vote for such an unestablished party that barely know what they’re doing other than spouting out anti-immigration hatred.

I wish people would actually adopt some critical thinking when it came to voting, sadly people become very reactive and emotional - same with Brex-shit.

It’s going to take a loooooong time to get this country back on its feet, if it does.

Interestingly, the Green Party seems to be gaining traction - who I voted for last election…

I wish people would actually adopt some critical thinking

We just need this!

It’s going to take a loooooong time to get this country back on its feet, if it does.

Absolutely, I feel it's too late tbh.

Thanks a lot. I've been trying to get PIP for years and it's almost impossible.

Maybe have a look at how much money billionaires are taking out of the economy and squirrelling away for no apparent reason except for their huge egos.

I don’t need ‘facts’. I rely on my lived experience and what I witness around me. Can’t get better ‘facts’ than that can you?

Do you? I go through waves of thinking that as well, but I’m ever the optimist that things can change - but it will take some bold action, patience and perseverance.

When my parents were still alive, a council worker asked me whether my parents were paying the council to cut their grass and hedge for them.

When I answered in the affirmative, he was outraged. (I'm an only child - my husband was clearly disabled following a stroke and my parents were obviously too frail to do it themselves by then. I was working full time and doing the rest of the gardening for them.)

He informed me that he was sick of finding himself doing the work for 'single parents' who weren't paying at all - in good weather, he was having to ask their partners to move their sun loungers.

Knocked 4-6% off GDP.
A £100 billion hit pa.
So yes BAD.

https://www.ft.com/content/e39d0315-fd5b-47c8-8560-04bb786f2c13

You must remember your lived experience is a biased perspective to operate from though. It’s not the only perspective.

Not sure that could balance the budget though…isn’t their policy to have open borders?

moaning

I don't want to have to deal with collapsing roads and rampant antisocial behaviour every time I leave the house. And paying a bit more tax seems like a far fairer way to achieve that than making life unliveable for the disabled.

Yes, that thread f*cked me off.
The child maintenance system needs serious, serious overhaul - it pisses me off.

I’d need to look a little closer at their currebt policies.

Why aren’t we putting some blame on employers who pay so little that workers need top-ups from UC to have a half-decent standard of living?

The Green party will have their hands as deep in other people's pockets as Labour. They are a scary bunch.

How can it be biased? Well if that’s the case your view is biased too!

If I have to pay more tax, then fine. I don’t have a choice. But I will feel incredibly angry if there is nothing to show for it i.e. investment and improvement in public services. And our benefits system does need an overhaul tool. I work in MH and see too many people signed off work indefinitely that could work.

Yes

awful when people claim fraudulently