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Originally Posted by peterg1965
My rationale is that I pay taxes, lots and lots of taxes to be honest, more than £26K a year between myself and my wife. Therefore, I am paying for my State Pension amounsgt other things and I would consider the Child Allowance to be nothing more than tiny tiny tax rebate - to which i am (was) fully entitled.
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Unfortunately, you aren't paying for your state pension, you are paying for the pensions claimed by the current generation of pensioners.
Those people who are saying 'don't have kids if you can't afford it' are totally missing the point.
The NFS family won't go to the wall as a result of loosing child benefit. But .. I didn't f*ck up the economy. Withdrawl of child benefit is a tax. I pay a hell of a lot of tax already and don't see why I should pay more.
There will be families with single earners on £32k a year that will end up paying higher rate tax due to company cars and other taxable benefits. They are the ones that are really being screwed. Absolutely barmy.