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Tax credits are certainly a benefit, but to whom?
-Do these payments help people get into work and off the unemployment register?
-Do these payments allow employers to pay less than a living wage?
In the first instance, people may well be afforded the opportunity to gain much from going out and 'being useful', but the Politician also gains much from the consequent fall in unemployment figures.
In the second instance, undoubtedly employment costs are kept down and consequently profits rise.
Why is it that a view can be taken that to make working viable what is needed is increased public expenditure and not a far higher minimum wage? Or...lower living costs;rent, fuel, food and transport?
Obviously it is simply easier to blame the direct recipient and unthinkable to tackle the innate avarice of employers, utility companies and landlords.
The rich live off the poor, and are able to blame the poor themselves for this only because Politics is left to Politicians and not accepted as owned, operated and controlled by the enfranchised Citizenry by that same Citizenry.
Taxation, just as with payment to the EU can be looked at in terms of the headline figures, but tax as with EU subsidy so much of what is paid is given back.
Unless, of course, you just wish the poor away...but then who would be to blame?