Where’s the fair?
A BUDGET which hits workers with ever higher taxes to pay for millions of jobless to sit idle at home is likely to be met with disbelief by voters.
It is reckless in the extreme for the Chancellor to even consider splurging billions on MORE handouts for large families while taking cash away from the strivers who keep the fragile economy going.
But Rachel Reeves is likely to scrap the two child benefit cap — months after insisting it was unaffordable to do so — in another sop to left wing MPs.
Britain now has five million people languishing on benefits with no requirement to find a job.
Yet to help pay for this madness, around 10 million pensioners will soon be paying income tax.
Yesterday, growth forecasts were downgraded until the end of the decade by the Budget watchdog in part because of Labour’s failure to curb welfare spending.
It doesn’t have to be like this.
The Chancellor could instead slash the benefits bill, insist claimants look for work, cut taxes for businesses and rip up damaging workplace reforms.
That would be fairer – and could set the country free from neverending gloom.
Keep it down
THE Chancellor claims to have put tackling the cost of living at the heart of her Budget.
Rachel Reeves insists she “recognises” the daily challenges families have to make ends meet.
Reversing the 5p cut on fuel duty which has been in place for four years would do the very opposite.
Running a car is a huge drain on weekly household finances and especially punishing for those in rural areas where public transport isn’t a reliable or reasonable option.
Petrol would rise to 142p if the 5p duty cut was ended.
That’s why The Sun has fought for over a decade to stop duty taking a bigger and bigger bite.
If the Chancellor really does want to protect family income, she MUST keep duty down.
Reform or die
THE BBC cannot be allowed to use the resignation of Director General Tim Davie as an excuse to act as though it means business as usual.
Repeated scandals and open bias have left the Corporation in a state of perma-crisis.
Yesterday, MPs were told these failings were systemic, dated back years and were getting worse.
Unless Beeb bosses are prepared to make wholesale changes viewers will lose all trust . . . and switch off for good.
