Father with 26 children by 15 women has ‘received £500,000 in benefits’

‘I think the benefits system is at fault, not the parents. The government said: “we will pay for your child care so therefore you will stay at home”.’

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Rolfe also complains the government benefits cap means his children can’t have ‘the other stuff children get [like] PlayStations [and] Xboxes’.


So it's the government's fault they making scrounging so lucrative and easy, but then complains when they make it less attractive?
 
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So it's the government's fault they making scrounging so lucrative and easy, but then complains when they make it less attractive?

It doesn't seem like an inconsistent viewpoint. The system has made it so he's much better off staying at home unemployed. When they take that away... who is going to employ him and pay him enough to make up the difference?

I struggle to get angry at "benefit scroungers" when the system is set up to make certain segments of society better off claiming benefits than going out and working. I get angry at a benefits system that creates this welfare trap, and inevitably when someone tries to fix the welfare trap, they end up closing said trap on those caught in it.

If I were in charge, I'd implement the negative income tax system. Combine tax and welfare into a single system, cut a huge amount of admin work, and make it so that any given person will always be better off working than not. It boggles the mind that no politician has ever had the stones to implement it.
 
It doesn't seem like an inconsistent viewpoint. The system has made it so he's much better off staying at home unemployed. When they take that away... who is going to employ him and pay him enough to make up the difference?

I struggle to get angry at "benefit scroungers" when the system is set up to make certain segments of society better off claiming benefits than going out and working. I get angry at a benefits system that creates this welfare trap, and inevitably when someone tries to fix the welfare trap, they end up closing said trap on those caught in it.

If I were in charge, I'd implement the negative income tax system. Combine tax and welfare into a single system, cut a huge amount of admin work, and make it so that any given person will always be better off working than not. It boggles the mind that no politician has ever had the stones to implement it.

The flaw in that argument being that "the system" didn't force him to have 26 kids he couldn't afford to support. ;)
 
if you're long term unemployed, reliant on the state to fund you and you end up having more than two kids you can't afford then perhaps your future benefits should be given under the condition you agree to be sterilized
 
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