Deliberate and Systematic British Government Unjust Policy making
To claw back money from the British public in order to try to deal with British Government debt, a
Crime, Criminology and Justice
totally unjust policy has been dreamed up by out-of-touch and privileged ministers with no sense of justice.
From the end of January 2013 the British Government is implementing a totally unjust policy whereby traditional British family friendly universal child benefit payments are being totally withdrawn from all families where at least one parent earns over £60,000 per year.
Child benefit is a tax-free payment that is aimed at helping parents cope with the cost of bringing up children
· One parent can claim £20.30 a week for an eldest or only child, and £13.40 a week for each of their other children
· The payments apply to all children aged under 16 and in some cases until they are 20 years old
· The system is administered by HM Revenue and Customs, which pays out to nearly 7.9 million families, with 13.7 million children
Injustice
If one parent earns over £50,000 per year but less than £60,000 then the payment is reduced on a sliding scale to zero depending on how close they are to the £60,000 threshold.
The total and ludicrous injustice of this new policy means that one family with one sole wage earner earning a total income of £50.000 will not only be paying the higher rate of income tax (40% for those earning over 40,000 per year) but will also have the child benefit reduced. Where one wage earner is earning £60,000 a year then a higher rate tax paying family will receive zero child benefit. However another family where there are two parents both working yet both earning, for example, £39,0000 each per year will have a total annual household income of £78,000 yet be paying the lower rate tax (30%) and still receiving the full child benefit allowance. That is ludicrously unfair. And yet the British Government believes it is an acceptable necessity in order to reduce national debt.
To provide another example of British government injustice, from the influential economic think tank The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS):
‘The government has created a dreadfully unjust anomaly, since a two-earner couple with taxable income of £100,000 split equally would retain all child benefit, but a single-earner couple or lone parent, with taxable income of £60,000, would lose all of it.’
That totally unfair policy making by the British government reveals the depths of Prime Minister David Cameron’s and his ministers disregard for justice and the degree to which they are all out of touch with the daily lives of the British electorate.
Only time will tell but perhaps we ordinary British people should fear that this policy could be the thin end of an injustice wedge. Because if we allow our government to do this to its electorate what systematic deliberate injustice will they believe they can get away with next?
“True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.”
Dr Marin Luther King
If true justice is to be restored to the victims of this fiscal unfairness then a reverse of this ludicrous taxing will mean that in the future its victims will be able to claim back all the money from the British government that has been unjustly collected from them – with due interest.
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You can read further information on the British taxation injustice burden, which is provided here by the BBC
