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Can I take you to task over the premise that proposed benefit cuts have to be ‘value for the tax payer’? This is a total misconception. People on benefits pay more in tax and profits pro rata of income than a high rate taxpayer! Tax is not the privilege of the worker either! Lots of workers earn below the threshold to pay income tax yet despite they work, they have something in common with the poor and those on benefits…. They all pay as much tax as they possibly can! Fact! So they self contribute to paying for themselves! Conversely, people who may pay income tax avoid paying tax on the major part of their income by NOT spending it all! By only spending some of their monthly money they contribute less per month in tax revenue as a percentage of income as those on benefits and low income. So ‘we the taxpayers’ is misused unwittingly by those who wrongly assume their tax contribution solely pays for benefits. When in fact it’s probably them who point the finger pay less in tax pro rata of their income than those they are pointing at and blaming! I’d like to educate those as they don’t see how our tax system works! Income tax is misunderstood and used by them as a reason that they pay for themselves benefit recipients when they don’t. Picture this, a homeless tramp beggar who has just spent his days earnings on as bottle of whisky and is now comatose on the village green intoxicated from downing that bottle. He or she has just paid over 73% in Vat dnd alcohol duty let alone contributed to profit for the retailer supplier and manufacturer! Thats more than a high rate tax payer! The fact is anyone who works it not on benefits or now those family’s stretched to the limit, all pay the must tax as they spend all their money each month. That’s the point! Those who spend all their money each month pay as much tax as they can! Conversely it’s those who don’t spend all their money each month pay the least pro rata of income! Why? Because tax is only triggered by money being spent and it money having to move. For example employers spending on employees or when we spend on goods and services Vat is triggered! When and where money is unspent and unused NO tax is triggered NONE!!!!! It is those who wag their finger at the least able and blame for the cost to the taxpayer! We are all taxpayers but some think they pay more and ironically they don’t! The monthly economy is devoid of money because so much money is not being spent in the same time frame and that’s why we are not making enough tax to fill the coffers of the exchequer! It’s that simple, not enough money is being put back in to he working pot via spending. Let’s look at income tax. It’s basically robbery! Money taken before the earner can enjoy spending it and as a result gets nothing in return for it either having something for it! If we make spending the way tax is triggered and most our money is not being spent why is it a surprise there is not enough tax revenue!? And so the government borrow from who? The same people who gave too much of it! So they get richer with interest and the poor get poorer! We need spending policy that gives everyone more each month to make a tsunami of flus and clocking up a tax revenue that overflows the coffers of the exchequer! Cutting is not the answer! So much money is out there in the ether it’s just not being spent back to renter the pot that revolves it to trigger tax take in an exponentially way that a wealth tax could not achieve as it’s only one tax take! Whereas a revolving amount via spending produces many many more tax revenues with all that inter spending! Honestly, had no one realised, we are not short of money that could be spent. We owe £2,800,000,000,000.00 trillion that’s out there somewhere! What do you think would result if that were to be spent every month!….perpetually!!! We would all be wealthy and we could afford proper benefits not less! We are not using all our money! We think we do but don’t. 95% of money is held by 5% of people. So if that’s correct 95% of people only have a working pot of just 5% of money! Thats not democratic! Be wealthy from stuff you buy not from holding the money itself!

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