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<blockquote data-quote="rowan" data-source="post: 811090" data-attributes="member: 85095"><p>So if the wealthy shouldn't pay more the only place it can come from is the sick and/or disabled. And there is a big difference between sick and disabled. Disabled people are often capable of living perfectly normal lives <strong>but often need a bit of help, like DLA, to enable them. </strong>Without that help they're stuck.</p><p></p><p>Sick people on the other hand don't have that option, they're too sick to work (and it's not just 'the odd exception'), but they are being punished for being sick. Even terminally ill people are now having benefits stopped if they don't go to work. Is all that fairer than the rich paying more?</p><p></p><p>Stephen Hawking, of course an amazing man, but very few people have the advantage of being a genius, and if he wasn't wealthy all the technology that helps him live his life would have to come from disability benefits, something that is increasingly denied to people like him who really need the help.</p><p></p><p>it's not often I recommend a Daily mail article, but this is a very accurate report of what's happening <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2117718/British-people-committing-suicide-escape-poverty-Is-State-wants.html" target="_blank">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2117718/British-people-committing-suicide-escape-poverty-Is-State-wants.html</a></p><p>Have a good read of that, it's not just DM spin, it's what is happening now. Should we accept all this as being right because people are "still not sure about making the wealthy pay more"?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rowan, post: 811090, member: 85095"] So if the wealthy shouldn't pay more the only place it can come from is the sick and/or disabled. And there is a big difference between sick and disabled. Disabled people are often capable of living perfectly normal lives [B]but often need a bit of help, like DLA, to enable them. [/B]Without that help they're stuck. Sick people on the other hand don't have that option, they're too sick to work (and it's not just 'the odd exception'), but they are being punished for being sick. Even terminally ill people are now having benefits stopped if they don't go to work. Is all that fairer than the rich paying more? Stephen Hawking, of course an amazing man, but very few people have the advantage of being a genius, and if he wasn't wealthy all the technology that helps him live his life would have to come from disability benefits, something that is increasingly denied to people like him who really need the help. it's not often I recommend a Daily mail article, but this is a very accurate report of what's happening [URL]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2117718/British-people-committing-suicide-escape-poverty-Is-State-wants.html[/URL] Have a good read of that, it's not just DM spin, it's what is happening now. Should we accept all this as being right because people are "still not sure about making the wealthy pay more"? [/QUOTE]
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