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Osborne Once Famously Said: 'we Are All In This Together'. Do Many Of The Rich Suffer From Malnutrition?
Or is it an affliction of the poor which will be made even worse if the proposed cuts in welfare take effect?
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Hearing a woman on the radio yesterday talking about tax credits really made me think. She is a single mum, raising one son, and she is a graduate, who has tax credits that top up her income. She said that having tax credits meant that she could buy a winter coat and new school shoes for her child, and not have to make a decision about which of them he could do without....
11:03 Wed 28th Oct 2015
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"Osborne's always followed naomi's principles.
Mind you with a multi-millionaire father behind him, it's not been too difficult."
I've been similarly keen on the same principles. My father was a painter and decorator, my mother was a wages clerk. We lived in two rooms and a shared toilet until I was two and then in a council flat until I was fourteen.
Mind you with a multi-millionaire father behind him, it's not been too difficult."
I've been similarly keen on the same principles. My father was a painter and decorator, my mother was a wages clerk. We lived in two rooms and a shared toilet until I was two and then in a council flat until I was fourteen.
@NewJudge
//But it is ridiculous to suggest that because no golf courses are closing and marinas are doing well that the country can continue its largesse. People who use golf courses and marinas already lose large chunks of their income to tax and they are already doing their bit. //
*Everyone* is doing their bit, taxwise, NJ.
Acknowledge this, if you dare:
Every bit of food, item of clothing, luxury accessory, travel to work cost, car, holiday is twice the percentage of a £25,000 a year person's salary than it is of a £50,000 per year person's salary.
Everything is therefore 'cheaper' for the rich person than the average person. They can afford the 50% tax and *still* indulge themselves in inessential leisure activities.
The phrase was "we're all in it together" and we still see the rich enjoying themselves like nothing has impacted them in the slightest. Until there are visible signs of them having as bad a time as the rest of us, then Osbourne's oft-quoted phrase will remain a hideous and patronising lie.
Some of us really want to know what makes rich people whine, when they have to do without it.
//But it is ridiculous to suggest that because no golf courses are closing and marinas are doing well that the country can continue its largesse. People who use golf courses and marinas already lose large chunks of their income to tax and they are already doing their bit. //
*Everyone* is doing their bit, taxwise, NJ.
Acknowledge this, if you dare:
Every bit of food, item of clothing, luxury accessory, travel to work cost, car, holiday is twice the percentage of a £25,000 a year person's salary than it is of a £50,000 per year person's salary.
Everything is therefore 'cheaper' for the rich person than the average person. They can afford the 50% tax and *still* indulge themselves in inessential leisure activities.
The phrase was "we're all in it together" and we still see the rich enjoying themselves like nothing has impacted them in the slightest. Until there are visible signs of them having as bad a time as the rest of us, then Osbourne's oft-quoted phrase will remain a hideous and patronising lie.
Some of us really want to know what makes rich people whine, when they have to do without it.
I have read this category for a while and honestly, I can't contain myself much more. I earn enough to get by, just, with no luxuries and a struggle for things like clothing and I am getting increasingly frustrated with people who think it's just a simple matter of hard work and application. It's not and hasn't been for a long time now. Had I not hit an unavoidable blip in my life, I might have been like you, blinkered to how it really is, but having to start again opened my eyes to how difficult and badly paid employment is now. even for skilled people.
It's all very well to have earned your nice comfortable incomes from your pensions and stocks back in the day, but nowadays it's hard enough to buy food and keep yourself warm.
I'm sure a lot of you have traded up houses over the years. Ask yourself honestly, if you had the equivalent of your income in your 20s now, would you be able to afford to buy, or even rent? I bet many of you would say no.
I worry for the lack of compassion here sometimes.
It's all very well to have earned your nice comfortable incomes from your pensions and stocks back in the day, but nowadays it's hard enough to buy food and keep yourself warm.
I'm sure a lot of you have traded up houses over the years. Ask yourself honestly, if you had the equivalent of your income in your 20s now, would you be able to afford to buy, or even rent? I bet many of you would say no.
I worry for the lack of compassion here sometimes.
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