Tory Proposes Killing the Fifth Child Of The Workless?

[Atheist-Lite]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15790806

Cap child tax credit after four children, says MP

A Conservative MP has suggested that caps should be put on benefits paid for children in workless households.

In an article for ConservativeHome, backbench MP Harriett Baldwin proposed that unemployed families get child tax credits for no more than four children.

She acknowledged it was a controversial idea but said the issue of children growing up in workless households was "extremely serious".

But Lib Dem MP Jenny Willott said the idea could end up penalising children.

The government already plans to put an overall £26,000-a-year cap on the amount of benefits a family can get - equivalent to £500 per week per family - from 2013, with some exemptions.

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Ah. You are number five? Go fetch the ball from the middle of that pond?

[Drewish]

Hear, hear! Fuck those lazy mooches and their worthless offspring!

[laklak]

Yeah, not giving people money for popping out sprogs when they can't afford to feed the ones they already have is the same as killing them. FACT.

[Atheist-Lite]

Yeah, not giving people money for popping out sprogs when they can't afford to feed the ones they already have is the same as killing them. FACT.

I'm not concerned with how many are being born, that is in decline anyway. It is how many who are holding unfairly onto life at the other end that bothers me.

[Feck]

How can we afford to sell the profitable bits of the Banks we bailed out at bargain prices And waive all the taxes due from international companies If we go wasting all that money on Welfare ?

[Atheist-Lite]

How can we afford to sell the profitable bits of the Banks we bailed out at bargain prices And waive all the taxes due from international companies If we go wasting all that money on Welfare ?

...and there's the increasing expenditure for the MOD 'cuts' which are going through the roof.

[Clinton Huxley]

Let's kill every 5th Tory and see if that helps

[MrJonno]

I would say bump over ever 5th Lib Dem supporter but only helps if they have 5 left

[Clinton Huxley]

I would say bump over ever 5th Lib Dem supporter but only helps if they have 5 left

If you shoot to organ grinder, the monkey goes back to drinking PG Tips.

[Drewish]

Who has the most children? The poor and uneducated! Who are the most religious? The poor and uneducated! Who commits most of the violent crime? The poor and uneducated! Who do these enlightened socialist dimwits want society to subsidize the reproduction of? The poor and uneducated! Well maybe some people don't think they should have to pay so that you can keep pumping out more voters and call it 'compassion.' Maybe they realize that evolution means survival of the fittest and that if you keep making everyone else pay for the ignorant and the incompetent, then you'll end up with Jesus' prediction of "the meek inheriting the Earth." And it will be a shitty fucking Earth if you listen to that mental case ass sucker Jesus.

[Schneibster]

Gee, that's gonna be popular when they figure out it applies to them, too.

I hope not to live long enough to see the first mother hunt.

[Audley Strange]

Yup, fuck 'em. I don't get free money for my self indulgences and none of mine are a drain on society.

[Atheist-Lite]

There are very few reasons to believe the poor will stay poor rather than drift away and do other things given the opportunity. Evolution doesn't have a moral purpose. Some families are large and some are small. The idea that you should introduce a clipping incentive is flawed for a number of reasons. There is obviously more existential resiliance in having a larger family and losing the genes /memes that code for large family size could become a serious issue if a high mortality virus broke out and left a much smaller population overall.

[MrJonno]

Yup, fuck 'em. I don't get free money for my self indulgences and none of mine are a drain on society.

Great punish children because their parent(s) are shit

[klr]

I'm basically in favour of this - the benefits limitation that is, not the child disposal.

People can scream all they like about fundamental rights, but a society/population has to live within its means.