‘I earn £12k and scrimp to send my child to private school – Labour’s tax raid is sickening’

HAYSIE

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/i-earn-12k-and-scrimp-to-send-my-child-to-private-school-labour-s-tax-raid-is-sickening/ar-AA1wN6Eq?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=aa6350324b0445e583584871cdf8b79a&ei=89#fullscreen

Essexphil

She doesn't just "scrimp". She gets these fees paid via Benefits.

She earns just over £1,000 a month. Her rent is £720 per month. Her child's school fees are just under £300 a month. That is all her salary gone. Still leaving food, utilities, Council Tax and everything else.

School fees are a luxury item. To pretend otherwise is plain ridiculous. Even food has VAT on the "luxuries"-like sweets, crisps, beer, takeaways.

Why does this woman receive benefits when she has a spare £300 a month on luxuries?

PS. It is not a "tax raid". It is plugging the loophole that is a tax break for the wealthy. And the entitled.

HAYSIE

Essexphil said:

She doesn't just "scrimp". She gets these fees paid via Benefits.

She earns just over £1,000 a month. Her rent is £720 per month. Her child's school fees are just under £300 a month. That is all her salary gone. Still leaving food, utilities, Council Tax and everything else.

School fees are a luxury item. To pretend otherwise is plain ridiculous. Even food has VAT on the "luxuries"-like sweets, crisps, beer, takeaways.

Why does this woman receive benefits when she has a spare £300 a month on luxuries?

PS. It is not a "tax raid". It is plugging the loophole that is a tax break for the wealthy. And the entitled.

She has a worse argument than the farmers.

rabdeniro

Sending your child to private school doesn't say much these days, a lot of them turn oot loonies and try to run the government.