Tax TAx TAX!!!!!! Fuming at our government!

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please try and convince me otherwise…..

What a joke this government are!!! ( UK)

Let’s just tax everyone who earns a bit of cash!!! Oh and while we’re at it… go on have loads more children it’s ok others will pay for them!!! Cutting the 2child benefit cap! If you decide to have multiple children you should be able to afford to provide for them. NOT expect others too!!!!! If you fall on hard times and you’ve worked and contributed to paying tax than you are within your rights to claim tax this is what benefits were made for, it’s not a means to not work, have more kids….etc!

Oh and if you work really hard and want to put some money by for you later days in life…. You’ll be taxed!

My situation:
Part time work, full time mum to 1 child. I work for myself and earn around 10k this money usually pays for things our daughter needs… clothes, clubs, any treats.
Husband works long hours, his under a lot of stress with his job, he has worked his way to and earns a very good salary 100k he gets taxed 60% you do the maths on that! We live in a 3 bed around £280k so nothing crazy but live within our means. We have one car! One holiday a year! Put money into savings! Pension! our daughter goes to one after school club. My husband got kicked out of home at 16…. He has worked with no help from family or friends and I believe he has worked very hard to get to where he is now. we are generous with charity’s and try our best to help out when we can if we can!

Most people would see 4 dc as a lot.., it’s not common

They have said nothing about lifting the benefit cap though.

I can, I think a two child limit was reasonable I’m not saying it should be a zero child limit! I don’t have a squadron of tax payer funded children

He should either be made to pay a fair amount of child support, or have had life insurance.
Why is the first instinct always a hand held out to the state (aka taxpayers) rather than any attempt at self-sufficiency?

This

Blimey so we've gone from 4 imagined children from 4 imagined different fathers to a platoon to a squadron! Stop making things up just to annoy yourself!

Nope. Just a holder of opinions that tend to go against the socially-approved narratives. I have many, but most never make it to the keyboard.

Yep: https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/nigel-farage-calls-lifting-two-child-benefit-cap

Dubai is waiting for you. Feel free

🤣🤣I don’t actually know the difference between a squadron and a platoon just thought the words sounded good. You can’t seriously think it’s reasonable to have 4+ taxpayer funded children though surely?

You chose to work part time, a luxury others don't have.

This is a good thing! 😁

How does hammering growth help anyone?

'Taxpayer funded children' is not how I would think of it, and nor would I think anyone decides 'I'm going to get myself 4 taxpayer funded children'. I think babies born to women who need some financial support should not be penalized for being the third or fourth baby born to those women.

Unfortunately there does need to be some amount of taxation as not everything can be truly private. Even with a tiny state, as long as the state exists, no matter the size, taxes will always exist.

You know the British civil service was around 4,000 people during the British Empire? Now there are in excess of a half a million staff. Insane size.

Yet people working part time and claiming benefits on top have that luxury, and there is no cap on the benefits they can receive, and now they'll be able to claim for even more children as well.

My friend already gets more than my entire full time wage in benefits, on top of the salary she earns.

Moot point.

Is it better to let someone on £150k/ year keep an extra £5k or split that in a redistribution of £2.5k to 2 people on £25k /year

So combined take home pay is approx £6.5k a month ? Hard to sympathise tbh

Not sure I agree with your definition of “a bit rich”. They have decided to do so and can afford it. They are not a drain to the tax system. if the OP’s husband is on 100k they don’t even get child benefit

‘Moot point’

Very Labour, who needs growth.

Whilst I didn’t vote for Labour and never have or will, the money has to come from somewhere. She also has to try and retain some votes and an easy fix is to make a change like removing the child benefit cap. In the same way they got themselves voted in by leveraging the VAT on school fees spite vote and the revenge vote against the Tories.

The books have to balance somehow and taxing from the ‘haves’ is the only way since
the ‘have nots’ don’t have any capacity to give more.

The taxes on people earning a living are going up and up. It's disincentivising work. Why can't we tax more on capital gains, rather than income?

Yeah. I might head over to a " My DH had an affair and left me. What benefits am I entitled to?" thread.

At least they can do maths over there.

What makes you think it wont lead to lots of new babies-especially amongst the immigrant population and also the dole lifestyles population. You might not know them personally, but they do exist and in big numbers!

That made me laugh