From: "sk8terg1rl" 
Newsgroups: uk.finance uk.legal uk.politics.misc
Subject: Why tax and then give back as benefits?
Date: 13 Feb 2007 05:30:10 -0800
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"One in three households across Britain is now dependent on the state
for at least half its income, it emerged today."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/12/nwelfare12.xml

A few reasons come to mind, but we can start with: "...intended to
create a grateful electorate rather than free-thinking citizens"

Not only that, a culture of high tax and benefits creates citizens
with a compliant, slaves-to-work (a job should make you happy foremost
and then secondly be a source of income) mindset; deprived of hope.

How many of those homes on benefits would readily vote out IngSoc when
it may be that they would be voting out the hand that feeds them?

The Tories need to say they will indirectly scrap benefits by cutting
the taxes that pay for it. Believe me, more money will be available to
taxpayers by not taxing citizens to set up a government-instituted
welfare system, than taxing them and letting the money filter through
a government bureaucracy and the plethora of civil servants.