This unintended consequence has to be dealt with as a matter of urgency
Topic: child benefits
Removing child benefit makes sense – but not if it punishes couples for marrying
Posted on Monday, 11 October 2010
David, I thought you were a sensible chap. What happened with child benefits?
Posted on Friday, 8 October 2010
Any student of psychology could have told you how it would play out
Michael Philpott did evil things because of the benefits system, says AN Wilson. That’s surely a perfect example of the folly of moral relativism.
Without the welfare state, he says, Philpott would have been ‘decently employed’. Maybe it’s more likely he would still have been a criminal?