Minimum Income Proposals

[gWaPito]

Okay. I see where you are coming from. But I still think £26k is too high. I can't see why tax credit alone can come between 66% of UK earners and their foreign spouses coming to the UK. Tax credit could be waived for sponsors, for example.

So who's gonna pay the short fall? Is it right to expect the already hard pressed tax payers of this land to furnish your chosen lifestyle.

Im not out to make mischief here, im just looking at it from the ordinary guy in the street point of view.

[lastlid]

So who's gonna pay the short fall? Is it right to expect the already hard pressed tax payers of this land to furnish your chosen lifestyle.

Nobody furnishes my lifestyle except me.

[gWaPito]

Nobody furnishes my lifestyle except me.

I dont doubt that I was just pointing out that benefits can be claimed under a certain amount. That certain amount as far as I know is £ 25k. Im sure this is the reason why the goverment want to set this minimum....ie to stop recourse to public funds.

[lastlid]

I dont doubt that I was just pointing out that benefits can be claimed under a certain amount. That certain amount as far as I know is £ 25k. Im sure this is the reason why the goverment want to set this minimum....ie to stop recourse to public funds.

But that eliminates 2/3rd of the population.

[gWaPito]

But that eliminates 2/3rd of the population.

It probably does....that's the downside, as ive already said, having a generous welfare system

[joebloggs]

It probably does....that's the downside, as ive already said, having a generous welfare system

why not join them gWaPito then ? not so generous when your on it , imagine what you could spend your £71 a week on

[stevewool]

why not join them gWaPito then ? not so generous when your on it , imagine what you could spend your £71 a week on

its only generous if you have no mortgage or bills to pay, and you have lots of kids and you have no intention of working at all, the trouble is we all have bills and a mortgage, thats why we all have to work very hard

[gWaPito]

why not join them gWaPito then ? not so generous when your on it , imagine what you could spend your £71 a week on

Umm probably a daytime meal at cosmo followed by evening meal at one of our few good Chinese eating houses

[joebloggs]

So who's gonna pay the short fall? Is it right to expect the already hard pressed tax payers of this land to furnish your chosen lifestyle.

Im not out to make mischief here, im just looking at it from the ordinary guy in the street point of view.

your presuming that these people will claim these benefits, which benefits are you talking about gWaPito ? , i dont know about you, but you can't have much of a lifestyle on what you get from the gov/taxpayer.