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Striker
Hmmmm, how interesting that the tory scum argued we cant have a 50% tax rate cause less would be collected from the rich and yet we are happy to spend £2 to reduce £1 in fraud....Rich c unts running the country for rich c unts!
I'd rather everyone paid and took the right amount out of our collective pot.
At the moment, there's a lot of people who don't, and know they are likely to get away with it - which makes the situation worse.
5 years of cracking down on it, and the cycle would be broken, then we could reduce spending.
At some point you have to grasp the nettle and do a proper job of something. Can't just keep covering the cracks with gaffer tape and hoping it goes away by itself.
Its why we've ended with this ridiculous child benefit system whereby a couple earning £90k could still get it, but a couple earning £50k (with a single earner) lose out. Despite it being clearly unfair, its more cost effective to administer.
The entire benefits system needs a complete re-write, from scratch.
So that it makes sense, is easy to administer & extremely hard to cheat.