> Are we paying too much in benefits?
Many people on benefits are deserving recipients. The two big problems with any benefits system are ...
1) some people who it's designed to benefit fail to benefit from it
2) some scrounger types will work out how to diddle it in their favour when they don't deserve to benefit from it
The trick is always to keep both types of problems to a minimum, so that the genuinely needy who the benefits are designed to assist actually are assisted. Then we can feel good about paying our taxes to pay these benefits.