bedroom tax gets 1 in 10 off benefits

It is not simply the transnational companies that benefit indirectly from government subsidies in the form of such things as family tax credits, it is also the CEOs and others at the top of the totem pole. It is not unusual for them to receive 40% increases on an already substantial salary while pleading "hard times" and "difficult decisions" for the rest of the workforce.

Who needs spin doctors when the Daily Wail is on your side? Gettinonabit is right about low wages. I wish the Wail would do an article pointing out the tax payers are subsidising multi nationals by allowing them to pay the minimum wage forcing so many people to be claiming tax credit, housing benefit etc. A living wage would be so much better, though still very hard work for people on low incomes.

But they were also quoting a Tory councillor, and he was the one who said about this rewarding people for working!

Credit given where credit due - the DM also made a very true statement within the article. As I no longer have the paper in front of me I can not be sure that I am quoting word for word, but this was the gist of it: "any suggestion that the policy is getting families back into work is a big boost for the Government".

How true! They (either DM or Gov) "suggest" it is happening, and the general public are only too happy to believe it. Yes, a huge boost for the Government, even if the "suggestion" is in reality poles apart from reality!

I can't help thinking that the bedroom tax is a ruse to distract from the real issue; that of huge amounts of taxpayers' money being used to subsidise low wages. I'm talking about child tax credits and the like.

It's a scandal. No-one wants to talk about it, yet supermarkets and the like are getting away with it on a massive scale. With Tories being hand in glove with big business there is no incentive to tackle it, leaving the Bedroom Tax to grab the headlines.

quite. Lies, damn lies and Mail journalism.

I think we have to take into account that this is from the Daily Mail, which does sometimes have problems with the truth, especially if it gets in the way of a good story.