If you could vote on the future of benefits, how would you vote?

[Supertramp]

Don't you think that would have the effect of people asking for benefits to be raised because those on them would be being "disadvantaged"... not to mention having to pay higher prices to buy stuff...vicious circle isn't it..

 

We'd probably pay the same prices but we'd get everything imported as it would be too expensive to produce anything in this country.

[Cyclone]

We'd probably pay the same prices but we'd get everything imported as it would be too expensive to produce anything in this country.

 

Which means that it would put more people out of work, tax returns would fall and we wouldn't be able to pay even the existing rate of benefits.

[Jonny5]

yet again it was Rich who came on a benefits thread and made it about himself, I was only responding on that topic.

Well yeah, but he kinda can't help it. That's what Aspergers is.

 

Unless he's using it as an excuse like Michael J Fox used his Parkinsons to pick on Larry David.

[truman]

We'd probably pay the same prices but we'd get everything imported as it would be too expensive to produce anything in this country.

 

Not very good for jobs then?

[poppet2]

I worry about the fact that many people living on the minimum wage can't make ends meet. The high cost of rent, food and heating already means people working full-time have no choice but to apply for housing benefit because they can't make ends meet. If people working full-time require benefits, what does that say about the minimum wage?

[Cyclone]

How about we have a society where employers pay people a wage that is high enough to take them out of the need to claim Benefits.

 

How about we just reform the benefits system so that no one ever looses out by doing some work. Benefits should be withdrawn in a staged way, 60p reduced for every extra £1 earned, meaning that working more always means an increased income.

[Cyclone]

I worry about the fact that many people living on the minimum wage can't make ends meet. The high cost of rent, food and heating already means people working full-time have no choice but to apply for housing benefit because they can't make ends meet. If people working full-time require benefits, what does that say about the minimum wage?

 

We done this calculation before. It's quite possible to live in Sheffield on minimum wage without any assistance.

[Supertramp]

Which means that it would put more people out of work, tax returns would fall and we wouldn't be able to pay even the existing rate of benefits.

 

Yes, but no one on here understands that.

[Conrod]

Pass the bucket, I think I'm going to vomit.

As ever, I stand educated by the intellectual and eloquent nature of your reply.