I assume this thread is coming off the back of the child benefit thread? I don't think the argument there is that 60k isn't a lot, just that a dual income family can earn more and still keep their cb, whilst the single earner gets battered more for tax too as they only have one (high band) tax allowance. It's the unfairness that people hate. Very very few people would say that 60k is a low wage.
We are lucky, DH earns a good salary. The equivalent of my pt salary gets eaten up in childcare and commuting costs. Our rent is £1400 a month which seems like a fortune but we are lucky, we can afford it. I know we are lucky, believe me. But it's ridiculous that it's that expensive to rent a (small) three bed family house, so if we didn't earn well, we'd need HB to cover the rent we couldn't afford.
If you have DC's and earn a low salary, your income gets topped up with TC's etc, you may get housing benefit, in an attempt to bring up your income to a livable level. I think it's absolutely shit that minimum wage is as low as it is that we need to have these benefits, and even more shit that DC and his cronies are trying to take these away.
But everyone is feeling shafted by this government, except those who are actually properly rich , who really could afford to contribute more without feeling it at all.