Who Would You Like To See Worst Hit By The Government's Forthcoming Spending Cuts?

[AB Editor]

In response to the recent MSN poll, and discussion found here:

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question904274.html

We wondered how AnswerBankers would respond when asked the same question.

 

This poll is closed.

Who Would You Like To See Worst Hit By The Government's Forthcoming Spending Cuts?

• The well-off - 33 votes
• 46%
• The North of England - 14 votes
• 19%
• The public sector - 6 votes
• 8%
• The unemployed - 5 votes
• 7%
• Middle-income earners - 3 votes
• 4%
• Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - 3 votes
• 4%
• The South of England - 3 votes
• 4%
• The private sector - 2 votes
• 3%
• The elderly - 2 votes
• 3%
• Students and pupils - 1 vote
• 1%
• The poor - 0 vote
• 0%

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Stats until: 21:32 Wed 18th Dec 2024 (Refreshed every 5 minutes)

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[joggerjayne]

A Gucci purse ?

Happily, enough money goes into the final purchase of Gucci purses to provide work for packers, drivers, warehousemen, delivery men, shop assistants, etc.

Alternatively, we could all buy cheap, dodgy purses from some bloke in Croydon ... and stuff everyone's jobs.

[dothawkes31]

So the Government make spending cuts, but tax the well off more? How does that balance out? They save money in one place and make more in another, so win and win, that's not usually how it works is it?

[Dris]

Sorry -but the well off !!
So you work your butt off just to be penalised -theres socialism/communism for you.
Im quite surprised to say the least.

[craft1948]

Leave the elderly alone.............I spend all my disposable income as I'm not bothered about what happens when I'm gone, therefore, as an avid consumer I keep a lot of people in work.

[daffy654]

Steve, you can hardly accuse the ed of posting a loaded question when it is a direct copy of the one that has been on the MSN homepage for several days.

[TheOtherHalf]

I vote that any unemployed person who cannot be bothered to get a job should be targeted. Some of them live off us workers like parasites. Im now 58 and have worked since I was 15 and only out of work for 3 months. Some were very small paid jobs but it was work. MyOtherHalf also has worked since leaving school taking any job that came along rather than be unemployed, even potato peeling for £2 phour and had to pay to get there. And will there be anything in the pension pot when we retire ??? Probably not, because we are paying out for these Lazy people who get everything paid for !!!!!

[Awkward]

The well-off get rich on the backs of those earning the minimum wage or less. Any proposed cuts will have no effect on them.

There are too many willing to defend wealth and privilege!

[Dris]

Depends what you determine as wealth and privelege.
I'm assuming you mean inheritable wealth and privelege -sorry if thats not what you meant.

I was acknowledging people who have worked darned hard instead of sitting on their bums or claiming benefits to enhance their lives and that of their families.Why should they be penalised ?

[joggerjayne]

My only "employee" is my cleaner ... "Olive"

... who is also self-employed ... running her little cleaning business.

That must make Olive a bit of a filthy capitalist !

(I pay her more than the minimum wage)

[Slapshot]

There are a huge number of areas where cuts can be made effectivley without affecting the front lines services we all need.
The welfare state is far too big, I'm all for getting the loafers off their butts and contributing to society but target the ones who have non intention of working not those who activley seek work.
The Civil Service, cut the huge amount of middle managers that every branhc of the service seems to have these days earning between £40K and £70K doing jobs that are created out of nothing.
Consultants and quangos - get rid of them all, we have an IT consultant works with us sometime he's earns £145 per day!!
Government - chop those salaries and perks by a chunk, we might then see some politicians who actually want to work for the state rather than join a gravy train.

Just so you know, I am a civil servant on a basic salary of less than 25k per year, without weekends and OT my wage would not be a livable income in this area....and we don't get these massive bonuses we hear about either.

[Dris]

Good for Olive then JJ as I too am a cleaner.Wheres theres muck theres brass :)

[jno]

well, if you've got more than minimum filth, JJ, it's only fair.

I don't much care who they tax as long as it isn't me (tis is basically what everyone is saying, right?), so just leave pensions out of it.

[ummmm]

Watching the news this morning it looks like the students are getting it....!!

Also...I watched something recently about the winter fuel payments. Where people of a certain age automatically qualify. One gentleman tried to return the payment as he didn't need it. Guess what? They had no system for returned payments. Apparently there are 1000's of households receiving fuel payments where they are not needed.

[redman41]

Most certainly not the poor and the Elderly as they have the least to give !

[ummmm]

Maybe if they gave benefit scroungers vouchers instead of money it might encourage some back to work.