GaryC wrote:I will try and put it a bit more simply for you then BarryW.
This benefit cut (bedroom tax) is financially costing this country more to implement than it is ever going to save and therefor adding to deficit, rather than reducing it.
So how is this helping?
I have no hesitation in supporting all measures to cut the benefit bill and public spending as I have said. You say it costs more and maybe you get that from left wing websites, I do not know if that is actually true and what basis those figures were calculated. If the policy does end up costing more then it will have to change, but I suspect that will not be the case.
As I said - if you really wanted an economy that can provide more help to those who deserve it then you should be supporting spending cuts, tax cuts and supply side reform. That is how to speed the rebuilding of the economy, more jobs and a level of GDP that can sustain the kind of public spending you would clearly like to see long term without repeated crisis other than cyclical downturns.