How many people on low incomes will lose out on the new tax reforms?

Question

i havent heard much about it yet but i believe that people on low incomes without children will suffer. thats me. and people in the high income bracket thats gordon brown, will be better off

Answer 1

so many that this government before long will have a riot on its hands. Its done nothing but shove those already struggling further down the poverty ladder.

Answer 2

i see in haiti people are protesting about the high cost of living are being shot dead, wont be long before it starts here.

Answer 3

get out of your low paid job and get on the dole like other right minded folk. don't listen to the self respect brigade they are probably middle class toerags who got their job because they knew somebody or appealed to another middle class recruiter.

they want to perpetuate this middle class con which convinces people to stay in low paid employment simply because it suits them. it justifies their salaries because managers are paid by business owners to keep costs down and get mugs to work for the minimum wage.

get real. you are being kept in a state of 'false consciousness' by making you think you are better off in low paid employment and that you have more self respect than those on the dole.

wrong. its the other way about. those on the dole have self respect and the low paid worker has hee haw. at least folk on the dole decide how their day goes you dont. you are owned. a piece of fodder exploited for maximum gain. you have prostituted yourself to Capitalism.

and if you dont believe that then you must really be of below average mental capacity.

Edit: Anon, you are not stupid you have simply fallen for the oldest trick in the book. The shame game. In the 19th century and during World War 1 scottish soldiers were told before battle by the officers that if they were seen retreating from the enemy then their names would be put up in the local kirk, to shame them in front of their families.

The shame game is about getting people to do what the middle and upper classes would never dream of doing themselves. Hence, telling people they should work for the minimum wage in order to gain self respect.

Its an effective ploy that has worked for them in the past but many folk are now seeing through it and thinking for themselves.

Edit 2- I should also point out that until recently University education had been ring fenced by the middle classes to help keep the working class down and in low paid jobs through lack of education. This allowed working class exploitation to continue unchallenged.

Answer 4

Why does it surprise you that the better off people are going to be helped again at the expense of the poorer people?

Is this not what our government has been doing continually for decades now? The divide between the haves & have nots is getting wider every day.

Answer 5

Yup, thats me... unfortunately my boyfriend and I are too proud to go on the dole, so we're living off under £5,000 a year between us (both students ) half of that goes on bloody petrol!

Answer 6

I have never understood why the low paid and the working classes vote Labour.  They are always worse off under Labour's tax and spend policies.

Now this lot have increased the taxes of the low paid and pensioners.  For a start, pensioners won't be able to claim tax credits so the poorest in society will become even poorer.  It's just no good anyone accusing this lot of 'right' wing policies.  One of the policies of the real right has always been to lower taxes.

Answer 7

Most who don't have children, it's another way of coning the public, you should't be surprised by anything that Brown and this Government do.

Answer 8

Naturally.  

Although they call themselves Labour, it is just another right wing party.  The cons moved to the extreme right under Reagan/Thatcher leaving untilled ground.  Blair moved in.

Trouble is, you vote them out - you get even further right.

Answer 9

How many will lose out? All of them.

Yet another non-budget that will do little or nothing to help those on lower incomes or halt the spiralling cost of living.

On a lighter note, if you earn a shitload of money there's new tax breaks for your capital gains on investments that we lower income folk can't afford. Typical.

Answer 10

Me for a start, i am a pensioner and also work part-time and get taxed on both. and a previous Primed Monster had the brass neck to make a claim for his TV License, and  fatty Prescott claimed zillions for his food bill

Answer 11

It was ill-thought out by Brown when he intrduced it as Chancellor and he's trying to back-track now hoping that no-one notices.

Yet another example of the shambles that is Nu Labour.