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  Jan, I assume your daughter was working.
  Barry wants to take away an income that millions of working people receive.
  May I suggest we examine the word "to benefit"?
  
  Who benefits from low wages?? To take away the working tax credit would mean that either employers paid more money to people on a low income, or to workers doing part time, or a few million quit and sign on.
  Immediately a few million people from the East of Europe would march in and go for the vacant jobs.
  
  There would be another surge in rent, owing to increased population, we'd have hundreds of thousands of more children not speaking two words of English in the classrooms, and the NHS would have a couple of million more patients earning peanuts and not paying more than peanuts on their minimum wage in tax, but receiving all the services available in our social system.
  
  Rather than squibbling over wording, Jan, it'd be wiser to question the sanity of Barry's economics.
  To our great fortune we have democratic elections, otherwise we'd have great trouble if Barry got his way.

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