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Well this is not what I thought it was going to be. It is not a tax. Defining the language apparently is how you win the battle of public opinion. For example: opposite sex marriage.

Londoner's are protesting a "bedroom tax". Apparently if you are a person who lives alone, but live for free in a two or three bedroom apartment and are of working age in England your cash welfare benefits will be cut by $20 dollars a week.

Once living off the dole is a way of life, any cuts are a "tax".

I have now entered dream land.

A bad name but a good idea. If someone getting welfare has a free place to live, their handout should be reduced by the amount that's for housing. Better there should be no welfare handouts, but we can't get there peacefully.

philip964 wrote:Once living off the dole is a way of life, any cuts are a "tax".

I have now entered dream land.

This isn't new. The earned income tax credit in the United States can result in a negative tax, where the IRS pays them instead of the taxpayer [sic] playing the IRS.

gringo pistolero wrote:A bad name but a good idea. If someone getting welfare has a free place to live, their handout should be reduced by the amount that's for housing. Better there should be no welfare handouts, but we can't get there peacefully.

philip964 wrote:Once living off the dole is a way of life, any cuts are a "tax".

I have now entered dream land.

This isn't new. The earned income tax credit in the United States can result in a negative tax, where the IRS pays them instead of the taxpayer [sic] playing the IRS.

Otherwise known as redistribution of wealth.....