Where our money goes...
I thought I'd do an experiment to see how much money I can get off the state, by finding out what benefits I qualify for. Now I'm a single man, of robust physical health and no catastrophic mental illness. I earn reasonable money - though things are a bit tight as I've just bought a house. In any sensible society, If I asked the government for money, I'd be told to fuck off, and rightly so.
But we don't live in a sensible society.
I have chanced my arm at working tax credit. £32 every 4 weeks. This took a long time to process and I spoke to no fewer than 6 different poeple. Admittedly I did apply for backdating, and refused to answer most questions, but it took a lot of civil servant's time to give me an extra night on the piss every month.
Now I'm having a go at council tax benefit. Upon speaking to the call centre, they suggested, no insisted upon a home visit, to help with the monstrously intrusive 18-page form. Going through it, line by line, it transpires that much of this data is unnessesary - but they collect and store the data anyway, like good little facists.
I checked. North Herts pays out more in housing benefit than it spends on roads, housing, Culture, sport & Recreation, Planning, Waste Collection and the Environment combined. It represents 3.6 times the total council-tax receipts for the area and is roughly equal to the central government grant. North Herts is a rich area. Why is so much benefit being paid? How many civil servants process this? How much are they paid - complete with unfunded, taxpayer guaranteed pensions - at our expence?
Surely wouldn't it be better to not tax the poor in the first place? Isn't that more efficient than taking money off the low-paid, swilling it around an army of bureaucrats, who make the applicants beg for their money back - before handing back a miserly ammount, whilst the grinning mendacious bastard in No11 claims he's doing the poor a favour and we all should be glad of his munificence, creating a fairer society. Bollocks. What a crime against efficiency. Not to mention the assault upon human dignity. Not to mention the disincentive to work. (This is before the Bureaucrats realise they've made a mistake and demand money that's already been spent back, with all the menace that the state can muster)
This is what the welfare state represents - a view of poeple as the the government's chattels. The state decides how much you should have, and in many cases what you are allowed do with it. No matter how hard you work, you can't escape their clutches. It's so wrong - I'm beyond rage.
I weep.
12 immoderate opinions:
"I thought I'd do an experiment to see how much money I can get off the state, by finding out what benefits I qualify for."
Finding out what benefits you qualify for is one thing. Are you actually claiming it though? I genuinely don't know, but if you are then that seems a little hypocritical, given that you say (given your physical and economic status) "In any sensible society, if I asked the governement for money, I'd be told to fuck off, [i]and rightly so.[/i]"
Well that HTML tag obviously doesn't work on blogger.com.
I hang my head in shame and flog myself with a giant cock 'o' nine tails.
I believe taxes are too high. Any money I get mitigates this and is therefore not hypocritical. I think benefits and taxes should be cut.
Well arguably if you personally don't believe that you should qualify for a particular benefit, then it's necessarily hypocritical to take the money, regardless of whether or not you believe that taxes are too high.
But anyway, where's the cut-off point? What level of taxation do you feel would be such that you would find it hypocritical to claim benefits (even if they were available to you)?
"Why is so much benefit being paid? How many civil servants process this?"
I don't know about England, but in Scotland Housing Benefit is processed by Local Councils, so the answer here is 'none'.
Local Authority pension contributions are paid into a real fund, unlike the Civil Service Pension Scheme. While the benefits aren't bad, they're nowhere near as good as the best private sector schemes were before that bastard Brown ruined them.
Go for it, jackart.
You say you are single, but not whether you cohabit (sounds a bit mucky doesn't it). If you live alone, you'll get a big slice of you council tax back.
As for being hypocrytical, what's so wrong with that? It's better than being stupid and letting someone else piss the money up the wall instead of you.
Creamy, when the state takes 35% or less of GDP and less than 10% of someone on less than half median earnings' wages. 50% and 50% are not fair.
Great idea Jackart, I´ve found your blog through the Adam Smith Institute Blog Review and I´ve taken the liberty of linking to it and translating some bits.
www.benevolencia.blogspot.com
Of course you can! You can say whatever you like about me - as I do not speak any spanish! Best of luck with your blog!
This is where your CASH is going!!!.
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