It is not their money. It has been taken from them. It's now the governments money.
It's been annoying me on a lot of the benefit threads where people get all haughty about how "their tax" is being spent. You don't have a say other than backing a party who's policies in how this money is spent. It always comes across as arrogant to me.
While I'm at it I also dislike the term benefits, it put across a feeling that people in receipt of them are in some way at an advantage to those who don't which IMHO just isn't the case. I think terms such as social security (although not strictly accurate given the current situation with so many) take away that implication that so many people who are fortunate enough to have never needed additional support seem to cling onto.
I've done my tin hand and fully prepared to be told otherwise.
I am also in no way implying that everyone who has never received this additional support have these opinions. Just quite a few on the recent threads.