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In the YouGov poll published this morning, 83% of those polled supported the government’s plans to abolish child benefits for higher-rate taxpayers. 86% of those polled also agreed with the proposal to introduce a £500-a-week cap on the benefits unemployed families can claim.
Given these figures, which I would guess are fairly representative of those around the country, it is hard to understand the media frenzy this morning against the proposals.
Do these journalists think that the public believe that only taxing the City fat-cats, overpaid bankers and those on very high incomes can pluck this country out of its current problems? Or that the cuts ought not to be fairly shared to a greater or lesser extent by everyone in the country?
Or is it just that there is nothing much else going on at the moment to capture the minds of the headline writers?
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In the YouGov poll published this morning, 83% of those polled supported the government’s plans to abolish child benefits for higher-rate taxpayers. 86% of those polled also agreed with the proposal to introduce a £500-a-week cap on the benefits unemployed families can claim.
Given these figures, which I would guess are fairly representative of those around the country, it is hard to understand the media frenzy this morning against the proposals.
Do these journalists think that the public believe that only taxing the City fat-cats, overpaid bankers and those on very high incomes can pluck this country out of its current problems? Or that the cuts ought not to be fairly shared to a greater or lesser extent by everyone in the country?
Or is it just that there is nothing much else going on at the moment to capture the minds of the headline writers?
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Like so many, you've bought the emotional propaganda.
ReplyDeleteTo save the country we must get rid of our huge deficit. "Your country needs you".......to bash the private sector and take the heat off the casino bankers!
"We are all in it together". For middle and low paid workers substitute 'it' with 'the shit'. For the wealthy substitute 'it' with 'the pink'.
Apologies, there was a typo in my last comments.
ReplyDeleteFor 'private sector' please read 'public sector'.
In a recent YouGov poll 74% of those polled agreed that the top 10% of this country's super rich should pay a one-off 20% tax on their combined wealth of £4,000 billion, this would wipe-out the deficit at a stroke. The interesting bit is that of those polled many of them were higher paid people!
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