@******lynda****** wrote:
Make taxation too unattractive to companies, they may leave and then we have job losses. Better to have low taxation for companies..encourages them to come here, creating jobs and thus income tax and vat receipts will rise, and benefits fall.
I agree - in addition what we should be 'clamping down' on are those companies that consistently pay such low wages to a large proportion of their staff that the state needs to step in and financially support them with benefits.
The minimum wage should be at a level that recipients don't need benefits.
A far more 'honest' system would be to directly subsidise those vital industries with government subsidies so that they can afford to pay a higher level of wages - at least in this way the amount a company is being subsidsed by is visible - the current method of allowing low wages and supporting employees with benfits just hides the actual figure.
