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