AIBU to want spending cuts rather than more tax rises?

[PinkFruitbat]

The foundations are being laid for more tax rises in the October Budget.

https://www.ft.com/content/6d43b599-3d7c-471c-88c2-0f056475a840?syn-25a6b1a6=1

AIBU to ask for savings in spending to help balance the budget rather than more taxes.

With welfare spending at nearly £1bn each day, when is enough, enough?

If he hasn't been on the medication what would the likely prognosis for his cancer have been? Many people are on many medications longer than is safe because it's that or the original disease runs rampant and they die.

What a bizarre assumption @Pluto46why would you think that?

Is it though?...would love to know the true difference between illegal evasion and benefit fraud/questionable claims

You seem confused. Younger generations are having to live on less. Thats a fact. It’s not a generational competition & it doesn’t mean all pensioners are rich.

Shall I go back in time and tell my dh not to get ill and unable to claim benefits so that I had to get 4 part time jobs with 3 teens to pay for? Where exactly was i getting the money to save?
This is what I mean when everyone is generalising. Sometimes shit happens and we deal with it the best way we can. We've never lived on benefits so at least I can't be blamed for that.

By 28/29 over 60% of all households will be net receivers. The reality is that high earners keep the show on the road. Not very ‘fair’ is it?

Slash the quangos! They currently cost the taxpayer over £300 billion a year !!!

Tax rises are inevitable regardless of who it power. What are people missing?

Taxes taxes taxes...then give the money away. Thanks labour

’What are people missing?’

That taxes are already high and there’s damaging effects from more on top.

@PinkFruitbat but when a country has an older population it’s inevitably that the amount of net receiver households increase. Most people are only net contributors for a small part of their lives.

Blaming individuals is not a good way to go. Schools sold off playing fields. Schools do not do enough swimming for long enough. Fast food outlets have exploded in number from since I was a child. School dinners have deteriorated.
Cook chill offerings that are mainstream are full of fat, sugar and salt.
People have been given differing dietary advice over the decades. Nobody knows what to believe. Fat is bad. Fill up on carbs. No, carbs are sinful. No, sugar is the problem. Eat butter again.
And then there are the organisations that should know better. James Martin tried to get a hospital to cook from scratch. Nutritionally better. It was cheaper too. In a hospital. The patients preferred it.
No sooner had he left they went back to paying more for heat up food that was not cooked on the premises. Disgraceful.
It is not always the individuals fault. How many times do you read on medicines ‘may gain weight’. My consultant got miffed when I pointed out that a new medication I was on had put two stone on me. Apparently I should be grateful it was not five ! With that outlook a less assertive individual would have I suspect remained on the tablets and indeed put on five stone.

OP lost me pages back whining about paying tax which goes on lazy workshy. Clearly she knows every single one of these and knows their circumstances…..or could she just be so thick that she can only generalise. Stupid 🙄. Still….in good company with the rubbish she reads in the right wing press. …and is daft enough to believe.

@EasternStandard what about my posts makes you think I don’t understand the impact of tax hikes. I already said we are in a doom loop….

You are just blithering on about labour and can’t even acknowledge that the Tories raised taxes, pointless 😆

We need spending cuts in the right places. so not decimating the nhs, underfunding education, etc. but welfare cuts. Absolutely. Hopefully by looking at intelligent ways of saving money such as a previous poster mentioned building more council,houses will save on UC payments.

Thank you for your care and concern.
Possibly you missed the bit about the brain tumour.
But hey, why worry about empathy and compassion, right?
'Are there no prisons, are there no workhouses?'
So long as you can impoverish people you think are beneath you; the vulnerable, the sick, the mentally ill, the refugees, the elderly - what an interesting society you want to live in. Reminds me of something...

If emojis make you feel better. You’re blithering on about tories and the past. Pointless.

Would that be the same daftness from Guardian readers believing left wing utopia exists? They also love to generalise about people they don't agree with. Do YOU know every single one of those right wingers you criticise?

Those emojis seem to do a lot of heavy lifting.

Yes in person PIP reviews would cost money to administer. But will likely recover a good portion weeding out all the fakers who claim it.

There is no child poverty in the UK.

If you are fit and able to work, but choose not to and milk benefits; then yes you need a kick up the arse into work. Community service, care for the elderly, British Army. Plenty of work out there….

If you want to pay less tax OP, you can how about put more into your pension? Or donate some to charity. You sound like a deeply unpleasant person tbh. The comment to the poster with a brain tumour was vile.

I simply replied to your post asking what taxes the Tories cut & have said that both parties have contributed to where we are now.

If you think that is blithering on about the Tories & the past then I suggest you work on your comprehension. Good luck! 😆

Sure. So what’s the issue? The next party will have to cut instead.

The problem you have seems to be that you are entirely uneducated yourself. I'd spend time arguing with you but it would be like arguing with a block of metal. Not a lot would go in. Your complete lack of understanding of economics, the people around you and the costs versus return of policing PIP in this way mena your opinion is thankfully a worthless nonsense anyway

One day those emojis will go down the gurgler with the current lot in power.