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Para 1 - Possible Counter?
Only 17% of benefits (need citation) are paid to people that are out of work. The rest are paid to people in work. Your hard earned money is actually subsidising big businesses, enabling them to pay such low wages that the tax payer has to top it up whilst they reap the profit and then manage to pay little or no tax.
This, this and then this again.
If Tesco/Sainsburys/Asda/etc don't want to pay their staff enough to live on, why should the tax payer pick up the tab when they are shifting shitloads of cash off to their shareholders?
MrDrem-
This goes to the core of why the Tory version of capitalism is such a sham. It's more like a ponzi scheme where a large number of people are being continually ripped off and the banks just print more money for them to borrow.
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^This.
It is questionable whether the UK supermarket chains have actually made any profits at all, if one subtracted the in-work subsidies the majority of their workers receive.
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mespilus
@NurseHolliday
Para 1 - Possible Counter?
Only 17% of benefits (need citation) are paid to people that are out of work. The rest are paid to people in work. Your hard earned money is actually subsidising big businesses, enabling them to pay such low wages that the tax payer has to top it up whilst they reap the profit and then manage to pay little or no tax.