[Neil]

Originally Posted by SamF

If your argument, as it seems to be, is that they will become tax payers in the end and therefore will pay it back, what makes the students who come from a background with a low work ethic more worthy of someone who will earn their keep ? If anything it is those that already have the part time jobs should be the first to receive the money, as they have shown the drive to get a job in the first place, meaning its more likely they will get a job after graduation, and therefore will be more likely to be paying tax/more tax in their future lives.

Very well said.

Why should those who work hard to provide for there families get shafted while the idle ones get everything. A simple example would be prescription charges. Why should I pay shed loads in tax towards the NHS and still have to pay for prescriptions while the professional Tricia and Jerry Springer watchers get them for free?