Minimum wage

[David House]

Tax credits & dropping the 10% is all a government ploy to put more civil servants in a job, nothing more. It could all be simplified by dropping all tax credits, lowering taxes, and adjusting the rates. However that would put 1000's out of work.

Don't you think that is maybe just a tad simplistic? Achieving wealth re-distribution and fairness in society, without significant impacts on growth, is a difficult economic task. Every system has winners and losers, and unfair examples at the margins.

[KeithD]

Don't you think that is maybe just a tad simplistic? Achieving wealth re-distribution and fairness in society, without significant impacts on growth, is a difficult economic task. Every system has winners and losers, and unfair examples at the margins.

Simple is better, especially when simple has just about the same effects, as the current one is over complicated, costs £Millions to run, and does more for the rich, and less for the poor.

While I'm at is, anyone on beneifts could do some kind of community service, Stephen Hawkings manages to do more work than 100,000's on Incapcity, I think that proves something is terribly wrong with the system. I should know, I'm chronically disabled, and run my own company, gamble professionally, and all kinds of things. If you can move a finger, you can make money.