Baron von tarv wrote:
Argue all you like that minimum wage is too low but when you are more able to go out an buy CD's and trivial stuff like that when you are not working something is wrong.
£160 a month and you can still buy CD's? I don't think I could feed myself on that, it's less than a fiver a day. In london, that barely gets you a sandwich. And anyway, the longer you are the dole, the more your standard of living fades.
I do agree that you should make more on the minimum wage than when you're on the dole, but on the whole people generally do.
And even then, I think that's less "wrong" than having some guys whose only activity is to use other people's money to speculate and make more money, making millions every year, and not paying a penny of income tax. Who's teh real parasite?
It's like this non-dom thing. They wanna charge £30k for foreigners who pay don't pay taxes in Britain but live here. Now, i agree they didn't really plan the catchment requirements properly, but the hoop-la caused by the story was completely disproportionate. Newspapers were talking about how it would make the whole of the UK crumble, and would kill the City, etc... Well, if the UK's economy is reliant on people not domiciled here, who don't pay taxes, and take all the profits they make back home, we're in much deeper **** than we thought.
I'm not saying there isn't some wrong on both extremes of the wealth scale, just that the debate is completely disproprotionally one-sided.