Am I the only one who......

gets pissed off at my taxes being used to subsidise children?
Mr Brown said Child Trust Funds are to be increased so that the £250 and £500 downpayments at birth will be doubled at seven years old.

Parents will be able to transfer maternity leave from mother to father for the first time and paid maternity leave will be extended to nine months by April 2007 with the aim of giving mothers a whole year of paid leave in the future.
The maximum maternity pay and child benefits for new mothers will rise to £8,300 in April 2007.

Free nursery education for three and four-year-olds will be extended to 15 hours-a-week from April 2007 and new funds are to be allocated to keep schools open from 8am to 6pm.

Up to 3,500 children's centres will be built by 2010 in England - one for every community and an average of five in each constituency.

From April employers will be able to offer staff £50 a week extra for child care free of tax and national insurance.

Child care tax credits will rise for those on lower and middle incomes, covering up to 80 per cent of costs up to £175 a week for the first child and £300 for two or more children. A two earner household on median income of £34,000 with typical child care costs would get an extra £700 a year.

From Robin Hood's Pre-budget report.
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It used to be that you didn't have kids until you could afford to bring them up - now it seems that you have kids because you know mugs like us childless couples and singlies are going to be paying more taxes for you to do so.

Sorry, but this is an inequality that is so wrong!
Piccy

They want more women to go back to work in the long run so that they can put their grubby little mitts on more tax.

It does seem like the 'welfare state' has lost its focus.

I'm all for helping those that can't help themselves that's where the safety net should end. Otherwise all we're doing is pushing money around the system and wasting a lot of it in the process.

BliarOut said:

Todays kids will be helping to pay your pension when you need it

No it wont. as far as I care if I've paid stamps all my working life I've already paid for my state pension, the .gov are nothing more than theiving scumbags when it comes to the state pension.

I'm fed up of all my taxes being given to parents, that and they never seem to have to turn up to work anymore.

robdickinson said:

I'm fed up of all my taxes being given to parents,

I'm a parent, am married to my son's mother, and was before he was conceived. My wife doesn't work (in the sense she gets paid for it )and all the child allowance gets paid into my son's account for when he is older. I don't want any more money from Tony's Cronies. It makes me sad to think that i'm very much in the minority in this.

I should be a gay single father sharing the upbringing of my son with his lesbian out of work mother and her girlfriend and I would probably be better off!

No Lesbians or Gays were harmed in this example and no inference.......etc,etc.

BliarOut said:

Todays kids will be helping to pay your pension when you need it

Wondered why I'd got no response and then found it had been moved - never go in pubs much these days - the amount of tax taken off me one way or another means I can't afford to. Back to the Quote
Oh no they won't... I retire in 6 years time and most of the kids I see aren't working anyway, they're living off the benefitds and blagging free houses.
Added to which, I'm struggling to be able to put money away to subsidise the Government Pension.
Oh, and why do they think that Pensioners need less money than the Benifitters to live on?
Piccy