From my back of a fag paper calculations it looks like a full time employee on UC will be better off after today's budget than if they'd kept the £20 uplift but not touched the taper. Whereas they'd … (View Post)

I am arguing for what Milton Friedman called a Negative Income Tax, or what others have called a Universal Income. A single defined benefit amount per person, a single defined tax rate, and that's it… (View Post)

I'm absolutely delighted the Chancellor has recognised UC Taper is a tax. Ending this is something I've been personally arguing about for twenty one years (since I started my Economics degree and dis… (View Post)

Productivity growth. We're no longer deflating our country by seeking low-paid minimum wage jobs supported by in-work benefits. (View Post)

If you do it over a cycle and say that spending not spent this year can be rolled over to next year's budget then yes I agree. But if its "use it or lose it" on even worse "you must us… (View Post)