thomas davison
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 Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 11:18 am Post subject: UK NO LONGER AFFORD THE WELFARE STATE,SO GET FOREIGNERS OUT |
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Britain can no long afford to pay the extortionate cost of the welfare state
By Peter Hitchens
PUBLISHED: 01:12, 13 January 2013 | UPDATED: 01:12, 13 January 2013
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Britain cannot possibly afford its welfare state for much longer. Most people do not realise that state handouts (�207 billion a year) mop up every penny we pay in income tax (�155 billion a year).
Everything else, the NHS, schools, transport, police, defence, interest on the debt (nearly �50 billion a year, by the way) must be paid for by other taxes, including the vast sums raked in by so-called �National Insurance�, or by more borrowing.
As we are more or less bankrupt as a country, such generosity is not noble but plain idiotic. Yet we will not stop doing it. Change is politically impossible.
Unaffordable: Britain pays out �207billion in state benefits a year - eating up the �155billion paid in income tax
Unaffordable: Britain pays out �207billion in state benefits a year - eating up the �155billion paid in income tax
Last week�s fuss about supposed cuts in benefits was a sign of the swamp we are in.
There were, as usual, no actual cuts. A hesitant plan to cap future increases was met with angry hostility by many in politics and the media.
Emotions were immediately engaged and slammed into top gear. That is because this immense and unaffordable attempt to substitute the State for the married family is at the heart of the political revolution which began 50 years ago and is now reaching its sad and bankrupt end.
The very idea that people should provide for themselves has become a horrible heresy, a barbaric view that no civilised person can hold. We�ll see.
My own guess is that a hurricane of inflation will, over the next ten years, rip the welfare state up by the roots and leave us impoverished, diminished and baffled, wondering what hnaffordable: Britain pays out �207billion in state benefits a year - eating up the �155billion paid in income tax
Last week�s fuss about supposed cuts in benefits was a sign of the swamp we are in.
There were, as usual, no actual cuts. A hesitant plan to cap future increases was met with angry hostility by many in politics and the media.
Emotions were immediately engaged and slammed into top gear. That is because this immense and unaffordable attempt to substitute the State for the married family is at the heart of the political revolution which began 50 years ago and is now reaching its sad and bankrupt end.
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The very idea that people should provide for themselves has become a horrible heresy, a barbaric view that no civilised person can hold. We�ll see.
My own guess is that a hurricane of inflation will, over the next ten years, rip the welfare state up by the roots and leave us impoverished, diminished and baffled, wondering what happened to us.
Here�s what we spend.
One wholly justifiable payment is the old-age pension, which is startlingly mean but still tappened to us.
Here�s what we spend.
One wholly justifiable payment is the old-age pension, which is startlingly mean but still takes up almost �80 billion a year, more than a third of the welfare budget.
Disability Living Allowance (3.38 million recipients) costs �13.43 billion.
Housing Benefit (5.04 million recipients) costs �23 billion; its close cousin Council Tax Benefit (5.9 million recipients) costs �4.92 billion.
Incapacity Benefit costs �3.22 billion; Income Support costs �5.3 billion. Jobseeker�s Allowance costs �5.26 billion.
I might add, because I continue to believe that this particular form of welfare very often hurts those to whom it is offered, that there are now 567,000 fatherless households being subsidised by the taxpayer.
Look at these figures and gasp. Where is the cash to come from? Think what else we might do with it.
I am sure a lot of welfare money goes to people who need and deserve it, whose problems are no fault of their own.
But I am just as sure that a lot of it goes to people who do not deserve it.
And on top of that, I know from my letters and emails how many people there are who have worked and saved all their lives, and who are therefore excluded from the most important benefits, when they need them most.
The working poor, who live next door to people whom they know to be cheating, are the most outraged by these abuses, and the most powerless to change them.
The new political elite, who hope to buy votes and power through handing out other people�s money, will not stop doing so until that money runs out.
And so we ramble merrily towards the edge of the abyss, making lemmings look responsible and far-sighted.
If you got rid of the foreigners who are sucking this country dry you will then have jobs and homes for the REAL BRITS so that they can prosper. |
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