Re: Another economically illterate article....
Then they are not getting a fair wage
Ahh, bleating about fairness. The first fall back of the economically illiterate. Ok, define fair. Then explain why everyone else should use your definition of fair rather than their own.
its even less fair to raise MY taxes in order to pay for the welfare
Ok, so you don't like paying taxes to find welfare, but you expect someone else to. Is that what you mean by fair? Because I'm fairly sure the dictionary defines that as hypocritical, not fair.
I might want my tax money to go on things like the NHS/roads/etc
You don't get to choose where taxes get spent. It's part of the moral hazard of paying them. Some people want to deprive the military of funding and spend it all on adminstration in the NHS. Some people want to fund the military so the staff don't get killed defending the country in preference to paying someone more to do a job that arguably doesn't need doing such as most middle manager roles.
"But people can live on the min wage" comes back the bleat
If you can't live on £16k then you aren't trying. If you want a better standard of living you need to get a better job. A better education has historically been key to that. Fucking about in school instead of knuckling down and learning has consequences, some of which are life long; those people don't deserve pity because they chose their life. Actions have consequences; they just do.
If you're prepared to live 2-3(or more) to a room in communal house with no hope of ever escaping that life, you can live nicely on the min wage
What diseased fantasy is this? Most people on minimum wage do not live 2 or 3 to a room. Provide a citation or accept that you're shitting your feelings all over the internet instead of forming a coherent position using facts.
As for the tax dodging...... he who pays the piper calls the tune.... and if your politicians can be bought and sold that easily, perhaps its time to change the system....
Change the system to what exactly? And what evidence have you that it would be a better system? We've already forever more ruled out any form of communism or socialism - they have failed literally everywhere they've ever been tried. There are no successful socialist countries and no successfull communist ones either (yes, I have been to China and their brand of capitalism makes ours look like a fluffy pet bunny).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
