Poor Must Give Up Pay T.v.

[mushroom25]

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/11/12/tory-minister-tracey-crouch-tax-credits-satellite-television_n_8543358.html?utm_hp_ref=uk

a cynical perpetuation of the myth that the box on the back of a sky dish is a council house?

or fair comment?

[mikey4444]

Careful Cloverjo...you run a great risk here of sounding reasonable !

[naomi24]

No Mikey, that is not reasonable. Tax Credits are given to people who, presumably, can’t afford to live on their earnings. If that money – tax payers’ money – is spent on luxuries, then the Tax Credits are surplus to requirements - and you have no business preaching to Retrocop about why he was or wasn’t suspended. Your duplicity has been exposed – yet again.

[Mamyalynne]

They calculate Tax credits using a formula - that formula takes no account of Sky TV, Phone Contracts or even expensive manicures.

[mikey4444]

There we are Cloverjo....you are wrong apparently...its official now that Naomi has given her verdict !

[ummmm]

Not everyone claiming benefits are lazy workshy...

I gave up work to look after my sick father. Should I be expected to get rid of everything I worked hard to buy.

Give up Sky, fair enough, but kids need the internet for homework, and my phone was on contract....pay it or get a CCJ.

[naomi24]

A weak effort, Mikey. Your response to Cloverjo implies that those who disagree with her – and you – are unreasonable and therefore wrong. They are not. You bang on about the poor, but if people can afford pay television, clearly they are not poor. That is reasonable.

[mikey4444]

Lots of people on this thread think that the Tories are barking up the wrong tree on this issue, but I notice its me that you have a go at !

Cloverjo, Ummm and the rest of us are entitled to our view. Play the ball, not the man Naomi.

[naomi24]

Mikey, //its official now that Naomi has given her verdict ! //

Take your own advice.

[Svejk]

No-one else expresses their opinions with the spite and malice that you do, mikey. If you insist on 'giving it out' all the time, you'll have to expect some negative reactions.

[ummmm]

That's a bit harsh, Svejk, he is very left but 'spite' and 'malice' ?

[Cloverjo]

I agree, ummm. There's no spite or malice in Mikey or any of his posts.

[Svejk]

Liars, drunks and trolls, just some of the regular epithets mikey flings at other ABers. Perhaps you're blinded by your political leanings. Whatever, we'll just have to agree to disagree on this one, ladies.

[FoxLee2]

If you think it's harsh that people on benefit are told to give up Sky TV - going back to the earlyish days of the last century when my grandparents had five children to bring up, they claimed what was then National Assistance. Someone came round and counted the chairs they had and my grandparents were told to sell some - the children could sit on the floor. That was harsh!!

[lindapalmara]

Some have Sky boxes and can still afford cigarettes and Tatoos!

[New Judge]

"people should be(and are) able to spend their money on what they like shall we go down the american system? "

Absolutely true. Unfortunately, for the purposes of this discussion, the money they are spending is not, strictly speaking, theirs. It has been provided by taxpayers, many of whom may be worse off than the recipients.