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Originally Posted by brian pearson
People should have as many children as they want. Just don't ask me to pay for them.
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This is where the issue of the welfare state comes into play.
I think people (not saying you brian) confuse "over population" with the issue of welfare.
I suppose one could say that everything the government does and spends money on is something we shouldn't have to necessarily pay for.
Personally as a tax payer I don't like having the government spending a fortune sending troops to fight unjustifyable wars.
I also don't like my tax money being sent to the EU gravy train in Brussels.
We can all think of things we don't want to spend our tax money on(and single mothers may be one of them), but in reality shouldn't the question be, which of these things are good for society as a whole and which are not ?
Personally I think there's more than enough money that could be taken out of the unjustifyable things to spend on other more productive things. (like the NHS for example) but people always seem to focus on the odd illegitimate welfare claimant than look at the figures and assess how much money we're wasting as a nation on some of the other things I've mentioned.
If people want to take a moral stance, start with the big fat ones first I say and blame the politicians who are primarily repsonsible for the mismanagement of funds in these areas.