4 hours ago4 hr About taking money away from subsidies for the poor to give taxes for the rich, would you like to comment on this scenario which I happen to know very well.My nephew has Down's. He's been very well looked after until now despite spending a lot of time in and out of children's hospitals. His mum is a gp, his dad owned a business. Both of them are now too old and weak to carry on. Luckily, tgeir local government picks up the tab for his continued care. I also know two more similar case for 25 years. I cannot stress enough the importance of educational support and social care for all governments regardless of party politics.
2 hours ago2 hr 1 hour ago, Woosh said:About taking money away from subsidies for the poor to give taxes for the rich, would you like to comment on this scenario which I happen to know very well.My nephew has Down's. He's been very well looked after until now despite spending a lot of time in and out of children's hospitals. His mum is a gp, his dad owned a business. Both of them are now too old and weak to carry on. Luckily, tgeir local government picks up the tab for his continued care. I also know two more similar case for 25 years. I cannot stress enough the importance of educational support and social care for all governments regardless of party politics.I agree with you about your nephew. He should, and will be looked after properly by any government in the UK. There is of course as you know, no proposal to cut spending on folk such as your family member, He is an innocent fellow who will always need looking after in a proper and kind fashion. No one proposes anything other than that such people should be fully funded for all their care needs. And absolutely right too. On the other hand, all these twenty somethings who since covid , have started declaring themselves 'Prone to anxiety and depression', and demand an enhanced income under PIP, should be sent straight out of the door to earn their own living. I don't have the figures to hand right now, but there are huge numbers who have done this in the last two or three years and the money being thrown at these useless, idle lumps of worthlessness, is huge. There are Youtube channels advising them how to guarantee acceptance for PIP, by telling them what to say to mimic the symptoms of illness. We have a large number of scammers claiming support. This ballooning of mental health and anxiety patients among the young only exists in the UK. Nowhere else is has it. This demonstrates that it is caused by gaming a feeble system - mostly that since covid the tribunals or bodies which decided these matters before with a proper expert examination and discussion no longer happen like that. You simply apply online. It is my opinion that we used to have a scam claimant here on the forum. I am sure you know who I mean, He used to boast that he had not worked for twenty years, and made it his business to harass and abuse the representatives of the tax payer who got in the way of his freebies. This is a despicable thing in my opinion. Going back more than eighty years, no one in my family ever claimed a penny in unemployment or sickness benefit. They got up and went to work and saved for their retirement. We should be encouraging that, but we don't because if you just give up and claim, the state will now just pay you when you make a claim for a lifetime of PIP on the Internet. When such people become old, the state automatically picks up the tab for their elderly care. Contrast that with the way my friend, a retired Major in the Army who served as a doctor looking after our troops, before becoming a consultant anaesthetist in the NHS, has had his entire life savings stripped from him over the last four years to pay his wife's care home costs. He does not complain, but he is now down to about £24,000 pounds. A whole life of service at a high level, and he is pretty much penniless before he gets any financial help. We pay wasters a fortune and we strip money from those who did the right thing. He was paying about £1600 a week for his wife's care. They are still bothering him about the fact that his poor wife owns half the house he lives in. They want that from him too.Your nephew is safe and always will be.
2 hours ago2 hr By the way - government does not give taxes to the rich. On the contrary, the rich pay vast amounts of money to the state. If some of that is reduced, they are not being given anything. They are just not be robbed quite so badly.
1 hour ago1 hr It was a typo. I meant to write tax cuts. I am tired after a day spent trimming trees with a small chainsaw. Here in France, local government employ lots more people than when I was young. Still, trees, lawns, hedges and flower beds are well kept. Plenty of sport facilities in comparison. Taxes are of course higher. Do I prefer it? It's a yes.
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