For a family with one parent working and the second looking after children, withdrawing child benefit is basically an additional tax. The Tories said that they would not do this before the election, but as we can all now see they are a bunch of lying tosspots.
So .. in 2013 my family will effectively pay £1792 additional tax.
It's clearly not going to break us, but it is going to be a noticable drop in disposable income. I already pay a LOT of tax and I don't see why I should be forced to pay more by a cack handed, back door, badly conceived, inherently unfair arrangement like this one.
It's not my fault that the government pisses away our tax money on a pathetically wasteful, badly managed, shambolic and inefectual welfare system. So why should my family have to pay to sort it out?