The idea of £1,000 per adult per month would make me considerably better off than I am!
And I would not want that - via this proposed method. I’d rather be able to work for it in a meaningful way.
As a married couple my DH and I would have £2,000 a month from the government as opposed to DLA (£441) for DD and carer’s allowance £333). I’d be twice as well off.
It would go a long way to helping my DD (severely physically disabled).
And to plan for her future - if she has one.
But I think of this idea as well as there are people who receive UC who rent and have severely disabled or disabled DC. They’d probably be getting over £2,000 already but that’s including rent costs.
My gain would be their loss - though we’d be in nearly identical situations re our DC but I’d be better off financially because I have a small mortgage and not rent.
Obviously that leaves out rent/mortgage and salary differences.
Everyone wants not to be in poverty but I wouldn’t want to see my imaginary counterparts in poverty while I have more spending money.
I’m qualified to phd level, I’ve worked in the Home Office (immigration law) and I’d FAR rather have better access to what other parents have - after school care for DD that she’d enjoy and would keep her safe (it’s not difficult but it might be expensive because private companies just rinse councils) or more flexible working conditions so I could use my fucking brain.
I know I’m in a weird situation but any government stooping to rob benefit depending family of poor Peter to encourage rich business owner Paul would be a government that was shortsighted and foolish, not to mention cruel.
I don’t know why Labour would never consider overhauling UC and grading disability benefits properly (There are good reasons for thinking the current grading system is just about functional).
I would support proper funding for medical and mobility equipment from a centralised government source that didn’t get pawned off to the council budgets (run by whichever party has power there and leads to a “lottery”).
In fact much of what is said about expenditure on social care boils down to private care companies charging whatever they like to councils, to the enormous costs of children who are “looked after children “ (not the children’s fault and I do NOT mean SEND children which is a different cost) and the extortionate costs of care in private care homes.
But as to what RR means by taxing wealth.. I don’t know. We will see soon enough.
There’s nothing socialist about this Labour government.
I will never vote Tory and definitely never Reform (their policies make absolutely no sense and are pie in the sky ( leaving aside the poisonous nature of some of their representatives)) and now never Labour again either, I used to vote Lib Dem.. but not now.
I hope whatever RR does its not just taxing people who really don’t have wealth but are forced to pay more because of the legacy of fucking Covid and the fatted calf that really was a hot air balloon of a calf of savings otherwise known as Brexit.