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Is it right the taxpayer has to pay for free school dinners
radcliffe95
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What with the Lib Dems announcing free school meals for the under 7's costing approx £650million, is it right that the taxpayer should foot the bill for this?
Personally I feel if people choose to have kids they should be in a financial position to do so and not reliant on government handouts.
Personally I feel if people choose to have kids they should be in a financial position to do so and not reliant on government handouts.
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False economy. Children going to school is a good thing for the country. Paying for them to eat during the long school day is a small price to pay for having a well educated population.
I, too, think the children of the less well-off should starve.
No, wait, I don't think that at all.
Bribery and corruption.
This.
They shouldn't have kids then if they can't afford them. This isle is creaking at the seams from all the needless offspring.
And when they inevitably DO have those kids, you'd be happy to see them suffer just because their parents were skint?
Yes. We should be more like China and instil a cap on the number of kids and even go one step further and means test people before they're allowed to produce offspring.......yes I know this is just wishful thinking on my part.
You don't like feeding other folks' kids
Some don't like funding dolies
Some don't like paying the army to go and kill people in foreign countries.
Some don't like paying for the NHS
At the end of the day, it's just part of life.
However, a bigger tax on second homes and buy-to-lets should pay for it.
So you'd like us to have the resultant street children and dead kids that China does? We're gonna have to agree to disagree on that one.
I'd rather my tax money be spent on things like this than some of the other bullshine that successive governments waste our money on.
Do you regard yourself as needless? Maybe someone should have said something to your parents before they cranked you out.
They've just taken Child benefit away from the rich and now handed it back to them.
There is a serious lack of joined up thinking going on.
I'm sure we can come up with a disposal method that involves little to no suffering and costs considerably less than this proposed scheme.
I can understand why children from low income families have free school dinners.
I think in this case, tax-payers money has been foolishly wasted on what seems like an honourable act, but isn't, not when you consider the spending cuts made to vital public services.
I do think a good idea would be for a portion of a family's benefits ( if they are on benefits) to go directly to school so they can provide meals for the students based on that
Nope, I'm an only child and my parents never entertained havin me until they were financially secure enough to do so.