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    Different issues being mixed up here.

    We have discussed the different treatment HMRC give big companies compared to small companies elsewhere. This is about the benefits and benefits cap.

    The Opposition have shot themselves in the foot by voting the cap down in the Lords, by keeping the matter in the public eye and highlighting LD and Labour attitudes it is doing the Conservatives a world of good in the polls. I am sure Cameron will be pleased, bringing the cap back through The Commons again with all the attendant publicity.

    What Labour and some LibDems are doing of course is to say that people can have more than the average household income in benefits. That is simply outrageous. I am with the 36% who think the cap should be lower at £20,000.

    The best way to reduce the level of these benefits though is to restrict increase to below inflation year on year, they were going to do that but the LibDems blocked it sadly. Guzzler is right about how wrong it is for benefits to be increased when salaries are depressed and it is not just a matter of the Armed Forces either.

    As I already explained, disability benefits are not included in the cap but I do think they should be increased in line with public sector pay at this time which is less than inflation. People should always be better off in work.

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