Moriath
I am a FH squatter
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- Dec 23, 2003
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It used to be the more kids the more benefit you could screw out of the system then you ended up with unemployed joes with huge families and no responsibility to cloth and feed them and no intention to get a job.You get childless people at food banks too @Gwadien.
Kids are a life choice that are already subsidised by society as a whole. I'm not complaining about paying for schools, universities, yadda yadda yadda. I actually think free school meals is a good idea (my first post is tongue in cheek). - kids can't learn if they're hungry or suffering from poor nutrition. It's a waste of the rest of the cash we spend on education - but I'd go full nazi on the food standards. No bringing in their own food - no snacks or treats. Good wholesome balanced meals in school or nothing else.
But child benefit? Automatically? Get fucked. It was your choice to have kids. And I'm happy to help pay for them to be schooled, and fed in school - because education is important. But the rest of the time? Nah - that's on the parents. You shouldn't get a benefit for having kids - wages should reflect a living cost for all - they shouldn't be shit and then people with kids get a free top-up.
its the extreme end of course but thats what the benefit system was promoting.
taking out the innocent child in this. Why should someone get their kids essentially looked after by the state when the person next door is out begging for food and cant make ends meet. Gets evicted, is not the responsibility of the council cause they are deemed not vulnerable.