kcrussell25:
Tax credits were designed to make it worth working part time as if not the loss of benefits for being unemployed but not full time wasn’t worth part time jobs. Much like universal credit is trying to do.The issue became that people realised you could do a part time job for full time wages there’s no point in working full time or even doing overtime as it goes off your benefits
Agreed, being subsidized should never net you more than by your own efforts, it is not the job of the state to aid the feckless, nor deviant employers who use the system to make their ill conceived business models work.
There is a point in working full time, overtime, shifts, whatever is needed to provide for and house the families you have by your own choice, it’s called pride in doing ones job to the best of ones ability, which invariably reaps not just job satisfaction, it can and does lead to landing better jobs and the knowledge that you have done your best not to be a burden on your fellow citizens…it is after all not govt money being handed out to those who play the system, it is money taken from said fellow citizens by the state, and as such the state should take its responsibilities to manage such systems properly and fairly, by not rewarding the idle at the expense of those prepared to do their share and more.