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Originally Posted by garinda
In reply to Pixie who made a comment to me via karma, [^5 for having the bottle to sign it,otherwise l wouldn't have responded.] 
Re: my comment about abolishing child tax credit.
l don't think all parents are 'dodgers' that benefit from this tax break, as l myself feel peeved when lumped with all disability benefit dodgers. l do however believe that a fair days work should equal a fair days pay, which could do away with this particular perk. Some young people do decide to make a long term career of having babies, which l think at the moment the state allows because of an array of lenient benefits which make it viable. l didn't mean to offend you personally, as l have litttle idea how hard it must be to bring up children well nowadays. |
I think the women who do make a career out of having babies should be stopped somehow. Part of me cannot understand how they can have x amount of kids - I have one and my experience with the whole pregnancy malarky wasn't one I would repeat.
However there are those of us who do actually make proper use of the tax credit system - I am working to support my child and also my partner, who is disabled. We don't get any of the perks that seem to go so easily to single parents/multiple mothers. We still have to pay council tax, morgage (sp?) and things that every other person has to pay. It would actually work out that we would be better off in a financial sense if we split up, sold the house and both didn't work.
That is a major flaw in the system to me.
Thank you for taking the time to explain your comments as well garinda.