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Barry, why is never all right to consider upping the £4 income? To £6 say?
Why only talk in terms of the utter impossibility of increased income? Impossible, at any rate, without a plethora of paupers.
Why we have a minimum wage and tax credits and why immigration can be seen as a problem is solely because of the greed of thoroughly unscrupulous employers.
Yourself and Dave can knock-on about a family, (notionally), in receipt of a 'welfare' income in excess of that available to an employed person without the least condemnation of the low wages available or the high rents as the norm, all you like, but there IS two sides to every coin.
Frankly, your eye is ever firmly fixed upon your own welfare. As you must be in line to earn from the most unscrupulous business people...a penny scrimped, a penny conned, a penny squeezed, a penny stolen... is a penny invested.
Invested where and in what?
Could it be that the penny is invested in some pension fund, the same fund that profits so greatly from accepting the terrible 'risk' of re-investing in the same economy it knows how to screw?