Brian
Eating fat, staying slim
It's been in the news, seems it exists in lots of countries in one form or another.
I think it should go and this is how you can get rid of it in the UK.
Give notice that any child born 12 months from now will not qualify for child benefit. That's it. You don't take anything from anyone, what people have now they receive until it ends under the current terms, so nobody loses anything. It's a long term plan, the cost will reduce each year and it will just fade away...
A second strand to this is the notion that perhaps what we should be doing is discoraging people from having lots of children.
If giving people money was previously seen as a legitimate way of encoraging people to have more children, perhaps a tax for having too many children is what we should be doing now. Maybe for every child after the second one you lose £x from your personal tax allowance?
I think it should go and this is how you can get rid of it in the UK.
Give notice that any child born 12 months from now will not qualify for child benefit. That's it. You don't take anything from anyone, what people have now they receive until it ends under the current terms, so nobody loses anything. It's a long term plan, the cost will reduce each year and it will just fade away...
A second strand to this is the notion that perhaps what we should be doing is discoraging people from having lots of children.
If giving people money was previously seen as a legitimate way of encoraging people to have more children, perhaps a tax for having too many children is what we should be doing now. Maybe for every child after the second one you lose £x from your personal tax allowance?