The IFS has reported today, according to the Guardian, that:A couple with two children will be £1,250 a year worse off by 2015 as families “shoulder the burden of austerity”, according to an Institute for Fiscal Studies report.So although well over 99% of such couples will have had nothing to do with creating the current situation of financial austerity they are paying most for it. That’s deliberate. That’s Tory policy. It’s a Tory policy of picking on those on benefits and those who don’t fit their stereotypical, and fantastical (as in fantasy) view of the family as if all society’s faults are caused by those out of work, on low pay and who are single parents.
The figures suggest families with children under five, families with more than two children, and jobless lone parents will bear the biggest financial pain.
More below ...
http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2012/01/04/no-one-should-be-talking-benefit-reform-until-they-also-talk-full-employment/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+org%2FlWWh+%28Tax+Research+UK+2%29
Some more essential anti-tory facts for you to have a look at. It ain't pretty, the more I read the more I hate David Cameron's agenda to smash the working class for every penny they have.
No comments:
Post a Comment