Poll: Benefit cap vote.

[Glaucus]

Benefits v Weapons of Mass Destruction

You decide.

Not really, even taking out Iraq and Afghanistan, it wouldn't plug the deficit between income and expendature. 2001-2010 cost us 20billion, not even half the gap in 2010 alone.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10359548

And as you said WMD Iraq was only 9.2billion.
Running at a sustained loss is not sustainable.

 

[Woden]

It should also reflect what workers have to do, so things like 8 people house shares should be the norm.

Then look at how to massively increase the NHS's budget.

 

[Hagar]

Benefits v Weapons of Mass Destruction

You decide.

Scrap the defence industries and armed forces to ensure people claiming out of work benefits have a more comfortable existence and can afford the little luxuries without the hassle of going out to work.

Yeah, good idea

 

[aln]

How about the government raise the national minimum wage to £8 an hour or more so as people don't have to claim! Companies make millions and millions of pounds a year just so as the fat bosses can buy a new boat each year!

If people can earn more then they don't need to claim benefits.

Stoner81.

The reason this isn't done is because it probably won't have a positive effect. The bosses will pass the costs on to the customers. The customers won't stop buying but will expect more wages to make up for an increased cost of living. The bosses will pass those costs on. In the short term people would probably be worse off and in the longer term we'll be lucky to be where we are now.

What I think would probably work would be manipulation of the market via communism. I'm not talking a totalitarian state here, just production owned by the workers. Lets give UK legal status to Worker Cooperatives and give them benefits. Add a further subset where you get considerable tax breaks for running as an NPO and having a wage disparity of less than n%.

If the market doesn't step in, forcibly create some startups that compete in key industries such as utilities and infrastructure. Prefer those types of companies in any Government contracts. Ignore the ******** and moaning from private enterprise and the EU.

Of course your Government officals don't want to fix the rich / poor divide. Being that the majority of them are all rich and the rest are all paid well above national average, is it not in their benefit to change the status quo.