Tidgy

Ok please don't turn this into a slagging match, but would you be prapared to pay more tax rather than have lots of spending cuts?

Jaybird-UK

Cut more. Cut it from the career spongers that live off the state.

One simple rule will fix the problem, you cant claim more than you have paid into the state.

This means the life time spongers with 9 kids get nothing, while the fallen on hard times redundant worker continue to be supported while looking for work.

Kieran_Burns

iTrader: (1)

Cut more - why should pay for a bloated inefficient bureaucracy - it's just throwing good money after bad

stef_2010

iTrader: (3)

CUT MORE !!!

Completely Agree with this

When I lost my job its rediculous what they were going to give me, not even enough to survive because they took my g/f wage into account aswell because we were living together

On the other hand someone I know is about to pop out their 2nd kid and neither the mother or the father work or have any intention of doing so

dpb

I think judicious cutting is quite definitely REQUIRED , the rest taxes

scoobywrxwagon

iTrader: (2)

Raise taxes and cut less !

All that will happen is you make all these cuts is u`ll end up with the unemployed claiming benefits. So what you was gaining with tax and national ins is lost plus they will then claim housing,council tax benefit plus unemployment benefit. So were is the saving there ??

They should streamline all public sector to same profile give or take and get more from the employees. Freeze wages for 24 month for ppl earning more than £25k and look at the pension side of things as thats whats costing the goverment !

fivetide

iTrader: (1)

Extra secret option - don't cut just spend it better.

Taking the money out isn't necessarily the right thing but spending it better - less red tape, no divine right to housing, cash, more junkies sterilised etc but putting the money into schools, hospitals etc

5t.

EddScott

Cut more.

One thing I didn't like the sound of was one comment along the lines of "Those not in work won't earn more than those that are"

If they are still working on non-working families being entitled to £26K they still don't seem to realise that if everything else is paid for by the social, £26K is still £500 a week to pi55 up a wall!!

billythekid

Cut more.

There was a news article about a school breakfast club the other day.

Saying it would have to stop under current cuts as they could not afford the staff or the equipment.

Cut to clip of kids... about 40 of them, about 20 top of the range apple mac books on the desks.
WHY!!!
If they need computers, then £200 basic laptops will do the job!
What is a Mac book, £800+?
Thats £16k+ on computers, for a breakfast club.

Its this kind of overspending that makes me wonder who is coming up with these budgets.

Sigh.

tony de wonderful

That is crazy but did the state really help pay for Steve Jobs' pension?

Personally I think I should pay less tax. I'm already getting dry bummed as a 'middle class' single person wage-slave, with no kids, earning at the top rate of tax.

I pull almost nothing out in the way of children education, health care, benefits etc.

I probably pay more tax that many rich people.

On top of that having been prudent during the housing bubble and saved cash, I get raped now to help save the reckless.

PaulC72

cut it more, start paying some of the over paid foold normal money until they at least perform better for us as a country. Stop the scroungers scrounging and so on.

Leslie

I think it is vital to stop wasting all that cash on useless ideas.

Les