If you only earn £20,000 and pay 22% tax, and you can claim tax credits and benefits, why do I have to work? It sounds stupid, isnt it? Staying at home, chatting with friends, playing snooker pretty good?. Is it a natural consequence of a welfare state like the UK?
2006-12-01 08:52:23 · 9 answers · asked by Beckham 2 in Business & Finance ➔ Careers & Employment
My question is I am willing to take the most basic life style, and the choice is mine, mine completely. Working can be painful. Politics everwhere. All I need is food and shelter.
2006-12-01 20:36:20 · update #1
You make the very common mistake of believing that living on benefits is some kind of money fuelled life of ease. I tried it once when I was made redundant and could not immediately find re-employment.
I lost all self respect, all luxuries and most essentials from my budget, finding 20p was an effort, I could buy nothing new, had to live on charity and was made to feel like the lowest of the low by EVERYBODY.
Staying on benefits is a job in itself! The forms are like 'war and peace' and seem to have to be completed several hundred times over to get enough money to have as much to spend on food in a month as most poor people have in a week!
Everyone that isn't living the nightmare always seems to think it is a dream life, yet they never seem to want to try it.......I wonder why?
Lucky for me I started working very successfully for myself (this is the answer) and left this hell behind; but I have not forgotten it, it would have been nice at the time to have had either the time or money to bum around all day playing snooker.
2006-12-01 09:28:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd be way better of financially if i were on benefits. But when I get up at 5 tomorrow morning, I know Ive earned my money. That's worth more than sitting around all day every day being bored stiff! And when I go out with my mates on the razz I know its my hard earned cash that's paying for it!
2006-12-01 17:06:29 · answer #2 · answered by CrunchyCookies...Leeds...x 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is people like you, who are the scourge of this nation,Be thankful that you have a job, even if it doesn`t pay big-bucks-for wages. At least you can hold your head up when you work, Some people genuinely cannot work for various reasons, they need benefits. Able bodied people do not. need to sponge on the rest of us. Stop thinking defeatist,and get your lazy back-side off the chair and go to work. JFK said "think what you can do for your country, not what your country can do for you."( for once in his life he was right.)
2006-12-01 17:10:03 · answer #3 · answered by Social Science Lady 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What a lazy sod you are! Weren't you taught the value of hard work? What type of example are you setting for the future generation? Jesus, you are so selfish and uneducated to believe that A life on benefits would be better than a life where you can say "this is what I have and I am proud that I earned it" rather than people like us workign hard to provide benefits to low life scum such as yourself! You give peoel who really need benefits, a bad name.
2006-12-01 18:05:33 · answer #4 · answered by brunelscooby 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
you are a lazy git, how old are you? you can't be any older than about 24 from the sound of that.
2006-12-01 16:58:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
you wouldnt pay 22% tax on 20k ...unless you have another income
2006-12-01 17:00:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
well at least you can say you have a job which is a bit better than not having one
2006-12-01 16:55:33 · answer #7 · answered by ciaragw 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if no one went to work there would be no money to pay benifits
2006-12-01 16:55:38 · answer #8 · answered by TINYTI 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont know?
sorry i cant help you
2006-12-01 17:00:43 · answer #9 · answered by =] =D XD 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋