i-thorts' i-Politics: Welfare Cuts? - Not In Our Back Yard!

Reblogged from The Writing's on the Wall: i-Politics:

BBC reported (Child benefit 'nimbys' accused) that Middle-classes are fuming at the thought of losing some (or all) child-benefit one parent is earning from £50,000 to £60,000 and over. (Families of three children could loose £4,000.)

This comes after poorer couples (working under 24 hour a week between them) lost up to £100 week (£5,200 a year) in working tax from this April ... and no one battered an eye or even seemed to report it. These are families on minimum wage, earning under £6,000.

The under-employed loose nearly 50% their income and no one cares. But when the Middle-classes suffer less than a 10% cut in theirs, the Treasury Minister, David Gauke, says that his own family will "just have to cope" with the proposed cut in child benefit "like the rest of the country".

David Gauke, using Tax Calculator app (Photo credit: HM Revenue & Customs)

Am I living in an alternative reality?

Will the rich be on their soapbox next; complaining about losing winter fuel payment for their stately-home or that they've lost their over-60s free bus pass?