Anti Wage- Slavery, Pro-Freedom Quotations Of The Week 890-892
Permit yourself to be stinking lazy.
The additional insidious suggestion by David Cameron, the
cause of much mirth at Tory Conference, was that by choosing to tax this top
slice less he was not gifting them a tax-break, because “when people earn
money, it’s their money”.
The implication being that this money was not made using the
work of low-paid people forced to claim benefits to supplement their income;
not made using the roads, airports and ports we all pay for; not made by all of
us buying their goods and service; not made under the protection of the same
police, fire and health services we all paid for.
No. This money magically came into existence out of the very
same anatomical orifice of these “doers” and “risk-takers” out of which the
sun, evidently, shines. A result of their entrepreneurship and get-up-and-go;
nothing else.
Alex
Andreou
Asking
the questions others are too intelligent to ask
With close to 40 per cent of New Zealand adults receiving
benefits now under our social assistance welfare model, it is obvious it
doesn’t live up to its promoters’ billing of being a “hand up”, in any way. It
is an abject failure, an indictment of the tragedy of targeted welfare
...
...the following package addresses what is needed to get
back on this path, while ensuring no blowout of government finances.
An unconditional
basic income (UBI) for every adult – $11,000 after tax, whether you’re in the
paid workforce or not. This enables more people to choose paid or unpaid work –
or not to work at all. Most importantly more would be able to pursue what they
want to do, rather than what financial penury forces them to do. We are a rich
society so to compel people to opt for paid work or face the stigma of
qualifying for a benefit has no logic.
posted by Jack Saturday at
12:28 PM
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