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The whole benefits thing, now I know we've touched on this before...But let's talk about
that again for a quick second.
When it comes to child benefit, child benefit is actually one of the tiniest parts of what
the government spends the money on...
What is going on?
Recently we heard of the Radford family, which is the biggest family in Britain with sixteen
kids...they were actually expecting a number seventeen and Sue Radford miscarried. Tragedy,
deepest sympathies...but they still have sixteen kids and they're not on benefits! My understanding
is they have their own business, a bakery or something and the father and mother chip
in to support their family. I've got nothing to say about them! They're supporting their
own, fine. If they choose to have sixteen its their prerogative as long as all sixteen
are provided for, that's fine; I don't know how they do it but that's fine. Now explain
to me, why...if a family of eighteen can do it off their own backs, why we have policies
such that people can just have as many babies as they want? I've talked about this before...Now
don't misunderstand. I know that they're are single parents out there who need assistance
and all that stuff; I'm not referring to those people. I'm talking about two parent families
who are just not working because they've got enough child benefit where they can choose
not to. These are the issues that we need to start talking about; why is that? So the
biggest family in Britain can do it but these lot can't? Explain....
A lot of people would say that there's not enough jobs and they can't get a job that
earns enough...
Who's problem is that? It sounds really really bad, no seriously! Its inflammatory, but who's
problem is that? My problems aren't your problems, your problems aren't my problems. Our problems
are our own problems is what I'm saying. Why should people who are working have to worry
about other people's problems? Explain it...
All I'm saying is, if one of the biggest families in Britain can do it, why then do we have
such a redundant policy? The policy seems redundant! If its a policy that's only extended
to people who come under hard times in terms of their circumstances or single parent families...OK
let's talk about that. But why is that you can have, three, four, five, six, seven, eight....X
amount of kids and then...they are being supported until they're sixteen or whatever?
It's got nothing to do with me if next person wants a big family...Again its this whole
thing about whatever it is you're paid on a salary, you're not actually paid that, you're
paid four fifths of that. The rest is taken out of tax! If you were working with the money
that you were actually supposed to be getting paid a year without the tax it wouldn't be
half as bad but its not...
If you were living in a system where you were earning your money but the government weren't
taxing you and all the money that you were earning was yours and you weren't getting
taxed, would you be peeved with the whole way the benefits system works? Not just with
child benefit but in general, I wouldn't be! I'm saying "People should be allowed to do
what they feel like.", generally speaking, I agree. But don't make it my problem, don't
tax me. This whole natural insurance thing, of course you've got to pay National Insurance.
but when you see what the National Insurance goes on, and the unessential stuff that people
get on National Insurance and all this sort of stuff its ridiculous!
There definitely needs to be some more...policing of it. But when does it get to the point of
almost like Nazish kind of Gestapo...They're not policing it to make it fair.
To stop it from being a non starter, we need to start agreeing on what's fair, and this
is the problem. Whatever I think is fair, the other tens of millions of people in Britain
probably won't do! This is why things will never ever move forward.