Comments on: We must reform Universal Credit to prevent it from penalising low-earners https://neweconomics.opendemocracy.net/universal-credit-cutting-the-aspiration-tax/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=universal-credit-cutting-the-aspiration-tax Tue, 11 Sep 2018 13:35:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.8 By: jgas https://neweconomics.opendemocracy.net/universal-credit-cutting-the-aspiration-tax/#comment-495 Fri, 04 Aug 2017 20:14:00 +0000 https://www.opendemocracy.net/neweconomics/?p=479#comment-495 Why not get the private sector involved? Make businesses who feel unable to pay a real living wage and/or or hire full time employees, apply for and justify annually their continued need for this wage subsidy (and report any changes to their business circumstances in real time, giving proof of the measures they are taking to improve their ability to hire without leaning on the taxpayer, of course). Increase their business rates and corporation tax until they feel the urge to make work pay…
they should shortly find innovative solutions to poverty wages, zero hours and the housing problem.

Or call it what it is: UK Competitiveness Subsidy (UK govt lowering the cost of employment) and make it automatic, none of this moralising, conditionality and surveillance of working people.

]]> By: Newshound’s Newsround 25/11/16 | newshoundsnewsround https://neweconomics.opendemocracy.net/universal-credit-cutting-the-aspiration-tax/#comment-53 Fri, 25 Nov 2016 08:51:35 +0000 https://www.opendemocracy.net/neweconomics/?p=479#comment-53 […] We must reform Universal Credit to prevent it from penalising low-earners […]

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