http://socialliberal.net/2009/02/14/the-ideas-factory/ Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:55:58 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://socialliberal.net/2009/02/14/the-ideas-factory/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Peter1919 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:45:06 +0000 http://socialliberal.net/?p=87#comment-18 Make the national minimum wage such that someone working 37 hours a week earns enough to be able to afford a socially acceptable standard of living in Britain today (http://www.jrf.org.uk/publications/minimum-income-standard-britain-what-people-think). Then make the personal allowance such that no one pays income tax (or national insurance for that matter) on income below this levelIt is unacceptable to me that we have people working full time jobs who are unable to aford to live at what people think is the minimum standard and yet the goverment is still taking income tax and NI off these people Make the national minimum wage such that someone working 37 hours a week earns enough to be able to afford a socially acceptable standard of living in Britain today (http://www.jrf.org.uk/publications/minimum-income-standard-britain-what-people-think). Then make the personal allowance such that no one pays income tax (or national insurance for that matter) on income below this levelIt is unacceptable to me that we have people working full time jobs who are unable to aford to live at what people think is the minimum standard and yet the goverment is still taking income tax and NI off these people

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