Re: Ive got a solution...
"Without benefits we'd see myriad problems arise."
The government seems to have forgotten that the prime effect of benefits is to keep the poor from rising up and murdering the rich.
In any case, the vast majority (over 2/3 of the total tax revenue) of benefits paid out are pensions and pension perks (fuel allowances, bus passes, housing allowances, etc etc) - and that's set to only increase as boomers retire faster than the retirement age is raised (cue rant about them not having paid enough tax or saved enough despite what they might believe and claim)
Of the "benefits" paid out under that name, most go to the working poor (which indicates that the minimum wage is too low) and most of what's left goes to sickness or other beneficiary types who can't work despite what Atos might claim.
Less than 10% of benefit payouts go to jobseekers or other genuinely unemployed and only a tiny percentage of those are long term unemployed. Most are on seasonal work or spend less than 3 years on the dole.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
