Would you want £50K a year tax free?

[thinfourth2]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2152115/...

This isn't a thread to bh about the benefits system there are plenty of those

So would you happily swap your life to live their life?

These folk get double the amount of money that I do but not a seconds chance i would want to swap lives

Would you?

[CHIEF]

No

[0000]

Why would you want to swap self-respect for a pay cut?

[New POD]

I have trouble coping with 2 kids. so no.

[thinfourth2]

So they majority at the moment want to sit at home with ten screaming kids while watching daytime telly

[Kinky]

thinfourth2 said:

So they majority at the moment want to sit at home with ten screaming kids while watching daytime telly

Ah but your poll does not say that. The poll says do you want £50k a year tax free. A bit ambiguous I'd say

[NWTony]

It's a bit disengenuous really. Clearly these people love kids or they wouldn't have had so fking many of them. A fairer question is would you like £50,000 to sit at home with your screaming supercars? In which case then yes, I'd jump at it.

[Halb]

Kinky said:

Ah but your poll does not say that. The poll says do you want £50k a year tax free. A bit ambiguous I'd say

Quite!


Plus, a few years on the naughty step and locked in the cupboard would sort those kids out.

[Smiler.]

They are typical of the mongs who live like this. I had a mental picture of what they'd look like - bang-on.

That said, the column to the right is full of equally odious type, whose only contribution to life seems to be providing the Wail with vacuous examples to gossip about.

[hollydog]

Wot happens when all the kids get to 16 when all there benefits stop.

[AJS-]

Hard not to see their point of view though. The system is failing - claiming benefits is the only rational thing to do in their situation.

[Jasandjules]

12 kids was that????

Then no. 50k for nothing however, sure why not.

[Hoofy]

I guess the answer for me is "No!" or I'd already be there.

[Hoofy]

hollydog said:

Wot happens when all the kids get to 16 when all there benefits stop.

Like father/mother, like son/daughter...

[JQ]

hollydog said:

Wot happens when all the kids get to 16 when all there benefits stop.

Exactly what I was thinking.

I guess the kids will stay at home, collect their own benefits and have to pay mum and dad rent. Alternatively, as each one leaves the nest, the parents get pregnant and replace them.

[Timberwolf]

I sometimes think that all schools should as a matter of course, when their charges are that sort of 14-15 age where they're starting to make the choices which will eventually teach them the meaning of "lifelong consequences", make them spend a few days with a thirtysomething family who are completely dependent on the government.

Not the Mail-baiting idiots who are proud of what they've done, mind. I mean the kind of folks who popped out a couple of kids "on the social" because it meant getting a flat to call your own and a steady income back when most of their schoolfriends were still living with parents and working for minimum wage. The kind of folks who didn't realise that ten or fifteen years later they'd unemployable, shoved in a draughty, badly-maintained house at the forgotten end of town, and struggling to make ends meet with nothing more worthwhile to do than watch daytime television on a rented set. Hoping desperately their estate doesn't "go bad" and start becoming a magnet for problem families; that's if they're lucky, and it hasn't already.

To make it worse those same schoolfriends who started out slinging burgers and keeping to an 11pm curfew now have decent jobs, a nice car, and live somewhere the neighbours don't party until 3am and the local school does something more than decorate the bottom end of the league table.

If you walk into that environment, the first thing that hits you isn't anger, or righteous fury about how you're paying for all of this, it's the despair. That feeling from all involved of, "I ed up my life and there is nothing I can do about it".

But that's what the papers don't let on, and no doubt this year yet another tranche of kids will fall into the trap, enticed by this idea that every baby's a jackpot.

[GadgeS3C]

Ignoring the background for the question and assuming I don't have to put up with a dozen screaming kids, then yes please!

Maybe I biased at the moment as I've recently taken redundancy and am comtemplating "what next?". I'm in the fortunate position of not having to get a job tomorrow but will have to earn money shortly.

So, if someone were to pay me £50k for nowt, I'd be very happy.

But here's the thing - I wouldn't be spending my days watching day time TV. I'd be quite happy to spend a couple of days volunteering. Maybe set up a social enterprise to try and put something back. Or maybe even setup a small business.

It'd be fantastic to actually be able to focus on helping people rather than having to earn money.

Maybe I'm just demob happy & day dreaming

[Welshbeef]

Jasandjules said:

12 kids was that????

Then no. 50k for nothing however, sure why not.

Exactly.

Question is incorrect.

If its for looking after x kids then qty is required if its 12 my god no way if it's for nowt yes please who wouldn't.

[Kinky]

GadgeS3C said:

But here's the thing - I wouldn't be spending my days watching day time TV. I'd be quite happy to spend a couple of days volunteering. Maybe set up a social enterprise to try and put something back. Or maybe even setup a small business.

It'd be fantastic to actually be able to focus on helping people rather than having to earn money.

Maybe I'm just demob happy & day dreaming

If you can do voluntary work, or setup on your own - then you can work for a salary and lose the £50k benefits

[Mr_B]

You make it sound like they are some unlucky couple blighted by some problem and 50K is some kinda poor compensation for the lives they lead.
I wouldn't swap £50K with some poor sod who was struck down by something which left them in a wheelchair, but their problem is of their own making , as I don't think they were visited one night by a flight of storks that each brought them a kid.