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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
Yes benefit fraud is wrong, but its no worse than things like tax evasion. Both things are defrauding the government of money. Yet tax evasion I suggest is far more widespread, how common is it e.g. for someone self employed to not declare cash income?
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Absolutely and no one on this forum would say otherwise.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Chrysalis
Yes benefit fraud is wrong, but its no worse than things like tax evasion. Both things are defrauding the government of money. Yet tax evasion I suggest is far more widespread, how common is it e.g. for someone self employed to not declare cash income?
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Pretty much l would say and yet some of the same people who go on about benefit fraud are defrauding the system themselves...
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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
The tories e.g. managed to find several billion to keep the DUP happy (1 billion funding for NI + cost of keeping pension triple lock). The money is always there, the problem is the will for it to be spent
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That magic money tree again which the Tories claim is non existent.