Originally Posted by
JediDude
Both my wife and myself have worked for over 10 years and contributed our fare share of tax. I don't see the problem in getting a little back for a year especially when there are single mothers around who have a much sweeter life than myself for doing not a lot.
A common fallacy is that just because you have paid tax for many years you have any right to expect anything back personally. The tax pays for education, the NHS etc thats what you are getting back.
People have to take responsibility for the choices they make and not expect others to bale then out.
There is no comparison between someone choosing to become a professional pilot and a teenage single mother.
From the professional pilot one is looking for good judgement and sometimes it beggars belief that people are prepared to commit to and spend £70,000 upwards for the prospect of being unemployed. There is a paradox there about judgement.