Would you want £50K a year tax free?
Poll: Would you want £50K a year tax free?
Total Members Polled: 129
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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?
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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