The Living Wage

A start

Prime Minister David Cameron and other political leaders are making promises in the run up to May’s General Election about bringing the low paid out of tax.

 

Maybe it would be better for the country to bring wages to a level where everyone could pay some tax. Maybe then, the tax rates across the board could be reduced generating more cash in people’s pockets.

 

The living wage is a start but to make a real step forward it will need to be set higher. People working with decent hours is the way forward making this country prosperous not for the few at the top of the ladder. It would need a major change in the attitude of many businesses, which I doubt would be forthcoming.

 

Keeping wages low at the bottom of the wage chain seems to be all consuming for some businesses who bemoan the minimum wage let alone a possibility of the living wage. It would reduce the working benefit bill, housing benefit and the like meaning more money for the NHS, education, the police and defence things that matter along with others.

 

There will never be full employment. It is a pipe dream and some kind of El Dorado in the minds of some politicians and unions. Maybe Cameron and his election spin-doctors will come up with the idea of putting the unemployed on zero hours contracts something the Tories are yet to announce.