AIBU to ask, if you could choose where your taxes went where would it be ?

[mumofbeautys]

yeh after loads of discussions about living off benefits etc .. amongst other things. I am confused on peoples opinions about who and what deserves the tax payers money.

if you could choose where it went what would you decide ?

very though out answer lol and yes defo breath !

I was watching that free speech programme on bbc I player last night about the young people... and think there was defiantly a huge issue with education in this country at the moment. oh and it was kind of funny to watch because the labour mp on it made him self look like a tool !

I actually believe that it makes sense to live in a socio-democratic system (think Sweden, Scandinavia etc).
High taxation and public (state) ownership. Spend money on developing industry's that employ people on a fair wage that aren't for profit as such. Harsher monopolisation laws. This has been proven time and time again to be more socially and economically productive than a trickle down system.
But in general I think taxes should go to the development of communities; benefits for the disabled, unemployed, elderly. Schools, healthcare, refuge and recycling, Rehabilitation programmes.

heartisaspade you have me intrigued. how comes you feel like that ? just curious by the way.

Nhs, schools, help for disabled or carers of, the elderly..........benefits for able bodied long term unemployed would be right at the bottom of the list for me.

interesting I suppose I had never really thought about it but I see your point.

Education, NHS, supporting the sick/disabled and their carers, taking anyone earning less than 12k out of the tax system altogether. Then some more on education.

People with disabilities and carers. Education including some extra curricular things. The genuinely needy elderly, especially dementia care. Good general health care. Training for long term unemployed as well as welfare support. Policing. Good subsidised public transport. Good quality social housing.
I might think of more.

I'm mostly happy with the way my council tax is spent.

Other tax I would want a lot more to be spent on the NHS, especially when it comes to managing long term conditions.

I'd also like to see more given to disability services and social care, and more to secondary and university education.

I'd keep the welfare bill roughly the same, but would massively increase non means tested disability related benefits, completely scrap child tax credits, and reduce housing benefit and council tax reductions. Childcare would be massively subsidised so that people with children had the opportunity to earn their own money and pay for their own homes and children.

I'd spend more on the military, and less on foreign aid.

education, particularly for those who are under-achieving or who experience difficulty during their secondary years when it's so easy for it all to go awry and so difficult to fit it all back together in time to pass exams.

NHS generally and Social Care in working with children, mental health, drug and alcohol rehab and in supporting those who have disabilities of all types to lead full, active and productive lives.

Subsidising childcare to the extent that services were available 24 hours a day would help those who work shifts or who need to be away overnight know that their children are well cared for in their absence. Giving up work should be a choice, not forced upon people cos of costs and availability.

Education, NHS (health not elective procedures/treatments), public services and things like youth clubs.

Benefits wise, pensions for those paying in (not state paid contributions) for a decent number of years, higher the tax allowance to £15k and scrap child benefit, tax and wt credits. JSA to be based on decent length contributions and time limited and no option to not work unless disbabled where no job is possible. Childcare would be tax deductible or heavily subsidised including nannies where main stream childcare is not accessible by some children. HB lowered and everyone should pay council tax as everyone uses rhe services.

Less foreign aid until we as a country are back on our feet with reserves for bad times.