baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
In a sense, it's a presumption that you are making as well. You want income growth for the poor rather than across the board. But why? Why shouldn't we cap income at the level of the poor? Why does everybody even need £18k a year? It's all totally arbitrary. From there, you can even call the rich a foreign country and stop worrying about them, and then you've gone right round in a circle.
In response to the first question, because, according to whatever measure you choose to use (and obviosuly there's a huge amount of disagreement about how to measure poverty), there are people in this country (obv. including a lot of children) who live in poverty. And I think that's pretty disgusting in a country as rich as this.
Well, I've lived on £18K in London - of course it can be done. And yes, the line drawn is arbitrary, but you can say that about most numerical lines. The point is, the line drawn by those who reserach such things, isn't being met.
In terms of calling the rich a foreign country, how do you mean? I worry about the fact so many people are limitlessly greedy, even though the majority of their wealth is just sitting there. That's pretty insane, in my view.
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