Government Encouraging Business to Create More Jobs

Comment on Economic Austerity by David Law.

“I didn’t mind paying tax but I begrudged paying tax at 40% to fund the lazy chavs and their Skysports News of the World lifestyle who lived not too far away from me.”

I agree with you 100%, some (and I don’t know the amount/percentage) of our tax money is spent on people who do not deserve it.

As I’ve mentioned before I like the concept of the work for benefits type programs: Vote No To BNP has worked in that area and thinks they are all doomed to fail, but I’m not 100% convinced.

I’d rather see government spending our money encouraging business to create more jobs (and government creating jobs in the public sector) than pay benefits to people who are capable of working to do nothing.

If the government doesn’t act we’ll have another generation of unemployable people like we had after the Conservative recessions.

We need government to set the stage so our country is more appealing to do business in/with than similar countries (it’s doing well, but it can do more). That can in some cases be achieved through tax incentives like the Canadian government does to promote it’s film industry.

It’s not rocket science, if a person is working it’s better than not working, we should be aiming for full employment using schemes that cost the country less than having millions unemployed/unemployable.

I don’t think governments (Conservative and Labour) think about this in the right way. It’s not necessarily about making a ‘profit’, it should be about costing the country as little as possible for maximum gain.

For example if it currently costs £2,000 (making the number up BTW) a month to keep a medium size family on benefits, it’s better overall if the adult(s) in the family are working and it costs £1,000 a month on less in benefits (working tax credits is an example of a successful policy). Still not ideal, but at least it costs less and the adults in the family are productive and contributing to society (paying taxes, good example for their kids etc…).

You can not run a country strictly like a business with everything having to be in profit to be worthwhile, full employment and costing the country less should be the goal. We should see ourselves in competition with other countries, not each other.

David Law